The matter will now come up for discussion in the Executive Council meeting to be held on December 17.
Mithunraj Dhusia, a member of the council, said, “The Common Entrance Test (CET) for undergraduate admissions will increase the number of coaching institutes which will be especially bad for the socially and economically disadvantaged students and girl students.”
Expressing similar views, council member Alok Pandey said that like engineering and medical entrance exams, students will take coaching to prepare for DU, leaving the focus on their schooling.
The nine-member panel constituted by DU vice-chancellor Yogesh Singh had recommended that the university should conduct entrance test through common entrance test to ensure adequate fairness in the process of admission. The university is getting admission from Kerala Board.
The committee constituted under the chairmanship of Dean (Examination) DS Rawat was to examine the reasons for over- and under-admissions in undergraduate courses, study the board-wise distribution of admissions in all graduate courses, alternative strategies for optimum admission in undergraduate Had to suggest. Check OBC admission in terms of syllabus, and status of ‘Non-Creamy Layer’.
“The Committee is of the view that admission may be made through a Common Entrance Test (CET),” the committee said in its report.
“It may be conducted by the University through a suitable mode through a well designed internal arrangement or through an external agency depending upon the operational feasibility and administrative convenience prevailing at that time, followed by various courses of study. After the declaration of the list of eligible candidates for admission under the
According to sources, the modalities for conducting the entrance test will be worked out after its approval in the executive council meeting. The Council also discussed the introduction of PhD and Masters in Nanomedicine and B.Tech programs from 2022-23.
Fifteen members gave a dissenting note against him.
Abha Dev Habib said, “MoE and UGC have systematically pushed public funded institutions to take loans from Higher Education Funding Agency (HEFA). We fear that proposals like NMI and B.Tech courses will be pushed to DU. Will become an excuse to push towards HEFA.” Former Executive Council member.
“While in principle we welcome the introduction of new courses, we need to ensure that these come in the form of viable continuous expansion. Starting B.Tech courses from 2022-23 without grants, recruitment of teachers and laboratory The setting is treating students as guinea pigs. We have seen enough of these half-hearted improvements,” Habib said.
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