The report of the Delhi University Teachers Association sub committee titled 'Major Academic Reforms: Promises verses Reality', has lashed out at the varsity administration for pushing through a overhaul "without ensuring quality change for the system and the University community".
The report criticises a series of measures already introduced or being introduced by the university at different levels and says they were part of a larger trend of greater commercialisation of higher education.
The university recently semesterised its undergraduate courses despite stiff opposition from the teachers association. It has also announced other measures including a four-year undergraduate programme, a B Tech in Humanities and a Meta University project with Jamia Milia Islamia and Jawaharlal Nehru universities.
"We note that till date there is a total absence of any detailed vision paper on the proposed major overhauling of the existing system of Under Graduate and Post Graduate teaching at DU and on the new academic programmes. No concept papers have been discussed in the Academic Council, nor have they been circulated in the Departments and Colleges, nor are they available on the DU website.
"This committee has, therefore, undertaken to piece together the information as per media reports in order to render a somewhat credible and coherent sense of the reality that the academic community will have to engage with," it said.
The report also says that the measures fit together only when seen as working in tandem with six Education Bills pending before Rajya Sabha.
"The Bills are to promote and facilitate private players within and outside the country to set up institutions of Higher Education and to promote even the public institutions to generate revenue through public-private partnership," it said.
