The decision of Delhi University to implement the National Education Policy (NEP) from next academic year has triggered a row with the varsity’s teachers’ body calling for a strike on Tuesday. The implementation of the policy from 2022-23 was approved by DU’s Standing Committee on Academic Matters in its meeting on Monday, under which students will have multiple entries and exit options during a four-year undergraduate programme.

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The committee deferred its discussion on the implementation of the Massive Open Online Courses and its other recommendations will come up for discussion in the Academic Council meeting on Tuesday, Press Trust of India reported.

The meeting approved the recommendation of a 42-member high-powered committee, formed by the DU to look into the NEP’s implementation, that the university continue its three-year undergraduate programme while assimilating in its structure a four-year degree programme and implement both one-year and two-year postgraduate programmes.

The committee also said “the quality of the degree conferred by the university should not be compromised”, therefore the “existing structure and workload should continue along with the addition of various courses”.

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Despite the implementation decision, the committee during the Monday meeting had expressed reservations about NEP, Times of India reported, saying the choosing of 2022-23 as the year for implementing the policy was decided without proper consultation. The committee argued that colleges did not have the infrastructure to support an additional undergraduate year.

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It also observed that NEP will be implemented in DU in such a manner that only ‘core’ courses will be left untouched and students can earn credits for all other courses from other universities. For example, in the proposed BA Honours discipline with research, a student needed to earn 196 credits in four years, while core courses would comprise 84 credits, or 42.86%. “So, technically DU will be allowing 57.14% of the total credits to be earned in four years from other universities. This will have a direct negative impact on the workload,” the committee was quoted as saying.