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DU to streamline admissions
NEW DELHI : Delhi University vice-chancellor Dinesh
Singh has formed a committee of 16 college principals to
work out modalities for admissions.
The committee that had its third sitting on December 30,
decided on mandatory online registration of all
candidates seeking admission to any affiliated college
of the university. While the process of admission under
the sports and extra-curricular activity quota is yet to
be decided.
The committee is clear on the fact that unlike the
previous years where the SC/ST students did not had the
choice of choosing their own course and college, this
time they will get the choice.
The committee that comprises principals of 16 colleges,
including Sri Ram College of Commerce, Miranda House,
Kamla Nehru College, Shivaji College and Deshbandhu
College, will be framing the admission policy and will
also be supervising the admission process.
The committee that met for the third time on December 30
after December 7 and 20 has finally decided on
registering all admission seekers.
“Whether it will be centralised through OMR forms like
the previous years or decentralised with each college
having its own form is yet to be decided,” a member of
the committee said. But the committee has confirmed that
for the academic session 2012-13 none would be taken
without pre-registration. “This will help us in putting
a check on the fake admission and will also ensure that
the colleges are not forced to over admit,” said a
principal who is the member of the committee.
The principal also clarified that the Vice-Chancellor in
the first meeting of the committee had insisted on
making the admission process technically friendly and
transparent. “The VC had insisted that the university
should move with the students of the current era who are
technically very advanced. The VC had insisted that the
forms whether centralised or decentralised should be
available online. The cut-off list and the list of
candidates selected should also be made available to the
students through the university or college website,”
added the principal.
The member of the committee also clarified that there
will be a change in the policy for admission of the
students belonging to the SC/ST quota. Till last
session, the admission of the SC/ST students was done by
the office of Dean Students’ Welfare. The candidates
were not given a choice to choose their college and
courses. “We have received recommendation from the SC/ST
Cell asking for a change in the policy. We are yet to
formulate the procedure, but I can confirm that from
this session they will have the choice to choose their
own college and course,” a principal said.
The guidelines for admission in the sports and extra
curricular activity quota will also be debated and if
needed amended by the committee. A fresh guideline for
admission in the extra-curricular activity quota is
likely to be formed for admission in this session. The
committee is to submit its final report to the VC in the
first week of March.
This is the first occasion in the university where a
committee to look into the admission process has been
formulated in the month of December. Till the
previous years the university met for the admission as
late as May, just a month before the admission process
starts in Delhi University.
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DU,
Jamia VCs oppose points-for-promotion move
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From Our Correspondent
NEW DELHI: The high-power UGC committee
formulated to rework the point based system for
promotion of teachers is facing opposition. The system
has faced stiff resistance from the teaching fraternity.
However, in the last UGC meeting, Vice-Chancellors of
Delhi University and Jamia Millia Islamia Prof. Dinesh
Singh and Prof. Najeeb Jung, respectively,
rejected the point based system for promotion and have
proposed that the UGC should come up with a different
mechanism.
The point system of promotion was introduced by the UGC
in June 2010. To assess the competence of the teachers,
the point system of promotion proposed assessment of
teachers on three categories -- teaching, extra and
co-curricular activities and research and publication.
In the system the teachers are to be promoted not just
on the basis of their teaching skills, but also on their
participation in the extra curricular
activities and for their research work. The system faced
criticism from the teaching community, who felt that the
job of a teacher is to teach in the first place and then
do a research and write papers.
A high power committee under the chairmanship of
Professor M Anandkishnan, Chairman IIT, Kanpur was
constituted in December last year to rework on the
promotion system for the teachers. The committee is to
submit its report in two months time.
The committee comprises of nine members including Dinesh
Singh and Najeeb Jung. In the committee meeting held
earlier this month, the two Vice-Chancellors rejected
the point based system of assessment of teachers.
Sources in the UGC confirmed that both the
Vice-Chancellors criticised and rejected the point based
system and the committee has made up its mind to do away
with the system.
The committee has now decided to come up with a new
system for promotion of the teachers. In the month of
November last year, the two vice chancellors had met the
UGC Chairman and the HRD minister requesting to do away
with the point system after which this committee has
been formed.
The Federation of Central Universities’ Teachers’
Associations (FEDCUTA) has been protesting against the
point system since the time it has been announced by the
UGC. The Delhi University Teachers’ Association (DUTA)
has also refused to adopt the system in the university.
“We have held several protests against the point system
for assessment and promotion of the teachers. Our
primary job as teachers is to teach. Besides
adequate facilities for research is not available at all
places. We have been demanding for the self appraisal
system ,” said former FEDCUTA and former DUTA president
Aditya N Misra.
In the next meeting of the committee on Thursday, a new
promotion mechanism is likely to be discussed and
debated. The committee is also likely to work on a
uniform guideline for selection and promotion process of
the college and the university teachers. “While in some
college it is the college trust that takes decision on
appointment, in others it is the governing body of the
college,” said a member.
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