Concerns raised about lack of roadmap for PG programme in DU

Updated on: Saturday, April 20, 2013

The restructuring of the undergraduate programme at Delhi University has raised concerns about the fate of the postgraduate programme—how many years it will cover, what the eligibility criteria for admission will be and the curriculum. The problem, once again, is the absence of a "roadmap".

The impact, however, will be felt four years from now when the first batch of students to study in the new programme will graduate. "Is there a roadmap for the next five years?" asks Vibha Maurya of the department of Germanic and Romance Studies. "Everybody in the PG departments is worried. There's a huge possibility of smaller departments being wiped out," she says.

Amitava Chakraborty had brought up the issue of the master's degree courses at the AC meeting and says he'd been told that the administration "may request the departments to cut down the master's programme to one year." But that, he argues, will essentially amount to replacing one year of "building expertise" at the PG-level with the foundation course, which, all the dissenters claim, is of "school-level".

Concerns raised about lack of roadmap for PG programme in DU

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