Delhi University It is set to resume its first year classes from July 20 under the new Undergraduate Curriculum Framework (UGCF). But this new four-year program has hit many ad-hoc teachers, especially those from the English department, as soon as it started.
This situation arose when the Academic Council body decided to remove English as a part of Ability Enhancement Compulsory Credit courses and General Elective courses. This has severely affected the workload or lecture hours in other colleges.
Sources have told News18 that the workload has already reduced in many colleges. Ramjas College has reduced 60 lectures, Kirori Mal College has reduced by 60 lectures, while Hans Raj College has 50 lectures.
“The decision is both anti-teacher and anti-student,” said Rudrasish Chakraborty, associate professor at Kirori Mal College: it is against the interests of the students as well as endangering the livelihoods of the teachers. While the NEP outlines the limitless options for students “Taking English as an option in the Ability Enhancement Course will force students to study languages they haven’t studied till class XII.”
He further added, “English in Languages and Communication AECC has been adapted to meet the needs of students of all disciplines: it is both skill-oriented and job-ready. While the decision to teach Indian languages is welcome , it should not be done by removing English completely. In a globalized world where we talk about integrating our education into a knowledge economy, English as a language for students especially in science and commerce To remove is to deprive them of a very basic skill to prepare themselves for the challenges in the employment sector.
Over 400 teachers of Delhi University have written to the university body to reconsider the expulsion. Mithunraj Dhusia, a member of the academic council who teaches at Hans Raj College, says, “We are demanding a reconsideration of the decision. But as per the UGCF-NEP structure, only those languages are to be taught in the AEC which comes under the 8th Schedule, and English does not come under the Schedule.”
On June 22, Delhi University issued a notification stating that all professors, associate professors and assistant professors of colleges under the university will have to teach as per UGC regulation 2018. The circular further states that colleges need to be certified to appoint more teachers if there is still a need for ad-hoc, if permanent professors, after the division of workload.
Mithuraj Dhusia said that as per the circular, there will be ad hoc recruitment/continuation based on the available workload and timetable. “This means that many teachers, who have been teaching as adhoc for many years, are on the verge of losing their jobs unless the DU administration intervenes,” he says.
The Delhi University Teachers’ Association is opposing it, meanwhile, the Academic Council has called a meeting on August 3, however, there is no clarity on the intention of the meeting.
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