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On December 6, with the beginning of the first semester examinations, the demolition of Delhi University would commence after the court order today cleared the hurdles that the teachers tried to put to save the higher education from private "kar-sewaks" of education. The government has earlier succeeded in ruining DCE by detaching it from Delhi University, it has already destroyed the culture of studies in class X by scrapping the board exam, it has also finished the urge among the students for achieving excellence in class XII by introducing grade system, it also scripted dilution of excellence of IITs by doubling its number and trying to introduce medical courses in them and has been making all out efforts to push AIIMS into a state of oblivion by finding ways to hand it over to a private player. Ironically, instead of finding ways to improve other innumerable government educational institutes and to help them in catching up with these centres of academic excellence the government, it appears, has decided to make these at par with those countless failed institutions.
It is strange that in the name of releasing pressure of studies for students the HRD ministry argues in favour of getting rid of exams in Class X and XII but advocates on the other hand, doubling the number of exams for undergraduate courses.
The apathy of Amity’s, Ansal’s, IIPM’s, Lovely’s and Sharda's will soon be over when they will have no one to compete with. All degrees will lose their values as no brand will have any shine left in it. Instances of son of a rickshaw-puller cracking IIT to break into the world of glory will be a news of past as now these institutes will have to obey Ambanis, Mittals, Manmohans, Sonias and Sibals. The queues for getting admission to the Delhi University colleges will slowly and surely be getting shortened with each passing year as very soon our established centres of all round development of students while keeping social service as its prime objective will not be able to stick to this aspect of its glory.
MR. SIBAL, YOU MAY HAVE WON BUT DELHI UNIVERSITY HAS LOST ITS CASE.
It is strange that in the name of releasing pressure of studies for students the HRD ministry argues in favour of getting rid of exams in Class X and XII but advocates on the other hand, doubling the number of exams for undergraduate courses.
The apathy of Amity’s, Ansal’s, IIPM’s, Lovely’s and Sharda's will soon be over when they will have no one to compete with. All degrees will lose their values as no brand will have any shine left in it. Instances of son of a rickshaw-puller cracking IIT to break into the world of glory will be a news of past as now these institutes will have to obey Ambanis, Mittals, Manmohans, Sonias and Sibals. The queues for getting admission to the Delhi University colleges will slowly and surely be getting shortened with each passing year as very soon our established centres of all round development of students while keeping social service as its prime objective will not be able to stick to this aspect of its glory.
MR. SIBAL, YOU MAY HAVE WON BUT DELHI UNIVERSITY HAS LOST ITS CASE.
3 comments:
Its a BLACK MONDAY for DU!!! U r right in saying that it is university that has lost and not DUTA!!
The passion we teachers have for teaching and education cannot be understood by these non-educationalists!!
Its a beginning of failure of learning process in undergraduate studies too!!!
How absurd it is that few outsiders have decided the fate of thousands of present academicians and lacs of future students!!!
This happens only in India!!! CWG, Adarsh, Telecom, now DU!!
I agree with you.
Black Monday for not only DU but the higher education in India.
The intervention by Court in what has to be taught and how has to be taught in University is completely un-acceptable. As you have rightly stated this will kill the democratic setup of the educational institution. But this blatant murder of the pillars of democracy (educational institutions) is directed from the top and judiciary too is becoming a part of it !!
At this point I again remember the quote from Dr. Sadasiva (he quoted this in DUTA executive meeting sometime back). Govt. want to do to higher education now what they did it to primary and secondary education 30 yrs back (in 80's). Note in 80's govt completely dismantled the govt. schools to promote private sector in primary and secondary education. Now we know that despite of the numerous problems associated with Private schools none of us try to send our kids to govt schools. The same thing will happen to higher education now !!
The biggest losers in this whole game will be the general public who is witnessing the destruction of the University system in India !! But it's ironical that they could not see this !!
Dear rakeshji,
i should admit and appreciate that you are spot on in your analysis. the kar-sewaks of privatisation are getting legitimacy from the judiciary to pull down public education with impunity. the university and academics lost the case, duta and the struggle will continue ... (though i am saddened by the way the desirability and feasibility aspect was left out of the duta approach of late, i feel we can rescue that still. i also remember how you intervened for legal redressal from DUTA side. the court has mentioned the lack of it, but as a political animal and law abiding citizen, i would still say, we should have linked up with students, karamcharis and the civil society in that order to struggle at the ground level to stop the juggernaut of semesterisation and then looked upto legal recourses. rakeshji, even the judiciary is built by the might of the collective, na ....) let us rersolve to continuee the opposition through our articles, classes, blogs, fbs and campaign amongst even the people who have been denied entry into the portals of university education.
Sachin
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