DU, JNU students oppose CBCS
28 Feb 2015 5:58 AM IST
Delhi University (DU) and Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) students along with support from their teachers, held a public hearing on Friday on Choice Based Credit System (CBCS). They slammed the present government for CBCS and said: “We will not allow destruction of public education in the name of reforms.”
“The present government is no different from the other as it is also trying to impose policies on the university system and use DU as a ground for experimentation. The so-called reforms are nothing but an attempt to homogenise all universities and saffronise education in the name of creating a ‘common syllabus’. After the disastrous attempt to impose FYUP, the government is once again imposing CBCS in Delhi University. This is a dangerous attempt to destroy India’s largest public university,” said Anmol Ratan, Delhi president, All India Students’ Association (AISA).
Criticising the government for imposing a ‘common’ Central University Act, “This will end the autonomy of central universities like DU and JNU, erode their respective uniqueness, erode their respective areas of strength in teaching and research developed through plurality of ideas and syllabus, and rich traditions of student-faculty interaction,” said Ashutosh, president of JNU Students’ Union.
Faculty member of Delhi University and also, member of its executive council, Abha Dev Habib said: “Experimentation with semester system has already shown that it is not working. By introducing CBCS, the approach towards education will become more market-dominated than borne out of interest. Also, the cost of education would increase which further hamper studies of students from economically weaker sections. If government believes in CBCS, then bring it with proper dialogue and discussion. Why so dramatically and undemocratically?”
“The present government is no different from the other as it is also trying to impose policies on the university system and use DU as a ground for experimentation. The so-called reforms are nothing but an attempt to homogenise all universities and saffronise education in the name of creating a ‘common syllabus’. After the disastrous attempt to impose FYUP, the government is once again imposing CBCS in Delhi University. This is a dangerous attempt to destroy India’s largest public university,” said Anmol Ratan, Delhi president, All India Students’ Association (AISA).
Criticising the government for imposing a ‘common’ Central University Act, “This will end the autonomy of central universities like DU and JNU, erode their respective uniqueness, erode their respective areas of strength in teaching and research developed through plurality of ideas and syllabus, and rich traditions of student-faculty interaction,” said Ashutosh, president of JNU Students’ Union.
Faculty member of Delhi University and also, member of its executive council, Abha Dev Habib said: “Experimentation with semester system has already shown that it is not working. By introducing CBCS, the approach towards education will become more market-dominated than borne out of interest. Also, the cost of education would increase which further hamper studies of students from economically weaker sections. If government believes in CBCS, then bring it with proper dialogue and discussion. Why so dramatically and undemocratically?”
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