New Delhi: As per the latest updates, Teachers have raised their objections against Delhi University's decision to increase the number of students in a lecture by about 50% to 60% per batch by stating that it will impact the quality of education.
On December 07, 2022, the resolution for this DU's decision to increase the number of seats was approved by the Executive Council of Delhi University, despite two members voting against it because they believed that raising the student-teacher ratio would lower academic standards.
According to the varsity's new strategy, there will be three times as many students in tutorials. As per Executive Council member Seema Das, the DU has set a cap of 60 students in each batch for lectures, 30 for tutorials, and 25 for practical classes in undergraduate programmes.
Previously, there were 40 students in each lecture for graduate courses, and there were 8-10 and 15 students in each tutorial and practical session. The number of students per batch for the postgraduate programs is 50, 25, and 15-20, respectively.
On November 11, 2022, the university sent a notification to colleges on this decision. “The Executive Council accorded its approval regarding uniformity in the teacher-student ratio in all the programmes and courses being offered by the university and its colleges, both at the UG and PG levels vide the notification", Das said.
Several teacher organisations disagreed with the notification, calling the batch sizes "bigger-than-ideal." The announcement released on November 11, 2022, will negatively affect the standard of the educational process at colleges and university departments, the dissenting members have emphasised.
Talking about Delhi University's decision, Registrar Vikas Gupta stated that the university created the guideline to bring consistency in teacher-student ratios across all of its programmes.
The members who disagreed claimed that increasing the tutorial group size to 30 students for UG courses and 25 for PG courses "negates" the concept of small group interaction and deprives students of the chance to gain deeper knowledge and clear their doubts.
In addition to this, the Undergraduate Curriculum Framework-based four-year undergraduate programmes' second-semester syllabi were also authorised by the Executive Council. During the conference, resolutions were proposed in this regard.
The council also talked about the course descriptions for 100 undergraduate programmes, including BA Business Economics (Hons), BA Multimedia and Mass Communication (Hons), BSc Electronic Science (Hons), and BSc Microbiology (Hons).
The second semester's UG course syllabuses have been authorised by the Executive Council, according to Das. The decision to increase the cost of the PhD thesis examination by Rs 2,500 was also approved during the meeting. Students with fellowships paid a cost of Rs 5,000 to submit their theses in the past.
The fee for students without a fellowship will increase from Rs 3,000 to Rs 5,500, an increase of more than 80%. In October 2022, Vice-Chancellor Yogesh Singh used his "emergency prerogative" to change the honorarium for reviewing theses.
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