Semester system rejected for Science courses at DU

Posted by mrudula on May 27th, 2010

Science teachers at the Delhi University (DU) have decided to follow the English and Mathematics departments in refusing to teach the new course module introduced with approval from the Academic Council under the new semester system.

A General Body meeting took place on Wednesday which was attended by around 350 teachers of DU from various science departments such as Physics, Chemistry, Botany, Zoology, Electronics and Computer Science. It was unanimously decided by them to reject the new course.

The Academic Council had met on May 13 and decided that the semester system would be implement in all science courses except B.Sc.(H) Mathematics and B.Sc.(H) Chemical Sciences.

The General Body of Science rejected the semester system as they claimed that Vice Chancellor Deepak Pental had passed the system illegally and without prior consultation from the concerned departments. The science faculty also decided that they would not be teaching any courses that are under the semester system.

Secretary of the General Body of Science, Vinay Kumar Singh, said that all teachers wanted the courses to be taught in the usual annual format and retaining the old syllabus for the course.

Another move by the Academic Council that was protested against by the teachers was the scrapping of the B.Sc. Applied Physical Sciences courses like Computer Sciences and Electronics and merging them with the B.Sc. Physical Science course.

The Delhi University Teachers’ Association (DUTA) was also approached by the General Body of Science, urging them to decide unanimously to oppose the semester system being implemented for undergraduate courses without discussion or debate.

The General Body also asked DUTA to discontinue its involvement with the DU admission procedure that is set to begin this Friday.