New Delhi: The University of Delhi curriculum revision committee on Wednesday opened its dashboard panel to accumulate the suggestion and feedback on the revised undergraduate courses syllabus from the stakeholders, teachers, experts and alumnae of the varsity. The revised syllabus is expected to be implemented for seven lakh students during the upcoming academic session of 2019-20.
The varsity is revising the curriculum of all the undergraduate programmes to be aligned with the University Grants Commission's learning- outcome based framework . "The process of revision of undergraduate course began on March 11 by inviting all deans and heads for a detailed consultative meeting,' an official said. Moreover, a consensus emerged on the need to revise the curriculum and participation of students in the curriculum revision process has also been ensured.
The "Under Graduate Curriculum Revision Committee" has developed a dashboard to facilitate the process. The dashboard has been developed to enable concerned teachers to work collectively and to share their inputs simultaneously. The revision schedule explicitly states different stages of involvement and approval of the revised curriculum from different statutory bodies of the University of Delhi. A member of the standing committee said that revised curriculum will have only 30 per cent weightage of state boards, meanwhile, for the first time curriculum will be similar for the regular colleges, School of Open Learning (SOL) and Non-Collegiate Women Education Board (NCWEB).
The revised curriculum will be expressed in terms of outcome related to knowledge, understanding, and communication skills. It will be aimed to foster quality higher education in academic research, and contributing to society, states the varsity. Standing Committee and curriculum revision committee member, Dr Rasal Singh said, its an appreciable step to do amendment in curriculum occasionally. "Time to time revision of curriculum is an appreciable initiative. By ensuring broader participation of all stakeholders, such initiatives become more meaningful, enriching and democratic. Students directly get benefitted by Learning based curriculum and the university also gets international recognition."