Delhi University on the edge
Delhi University (DU), a leading public universities of India, with 400 000 students and 8,000 teachers, spread over 75 + schools and school of open learning environment on an ongoing crisis in his administration. Soaring rates of eligibility – “cut off” – taking, even if the launch is not due to faulty Government directive in April to abandon their pre-entry forms, lead, ironically, as part of a reduction in the University Academic during the period 2011-12.
Many teachers, students, and non-teaching staff have been complaining over the years about overcrowded classrooms, libraries and laboratories, increasing the workload rapidly deteriorating employment and working conditions, lower student-teacher interactions and the decline of academic standards and values. Concerns about excessive school dropout (CBSE) brand, an inadequate public funding, and the unequal distribution of quality higher education across the country, and among the UA colleges were a few times.
The calls have gone to college and university administration to secure and expand employment and infrastructure, including hostels, especially for women, so the problems of admission procedures and “more revenue” can begin to be treated without having to close all doors to a growing number of admission of asylum seekers, taking care that the proportion of seats reserved for generals and new student remains strong. Today, more income “will take place in the general category only mock the proportions between the general and reserved seats. Teachers also require the review, of course, discussed in depth and a reassessment of the internal evaluation system in place several years ago.
Awareness campaigns have been students and teachers in gender, class, caste, ability, community and racial discrimination on campus, has drawn attention to the rampant sexual harassment and violence is just below the skin, orgies increasingly explosive, and the massacre at the latest, and among men younger universities, in the streets and in university hostels, canteens, cafeterias, classrooms and corridors. They strongly demanded the absence of effective college and university administrations to create a favorable, in which the teaching-learning can take place without obstacles, and all could benefit from equal educational opportunities for Du.
Unfortunately, the virtual silence of the administration on these and other concerns, they refused to listen and encourage debate, more ideas and energy from the bottom so that the university reform could come university, organic, meaning the loss of intellectual life continued to DU.
The fatal blow to academic integrity, intellectual and democratic AU and the position has come, however, over the past two years, the arbitrary decision of the administration, at the request of the Department of Human Resource Development (MHRD) to respond quickly and without thinking about the imposition of semesters at a university the size of the AU, swaying to the beat of a calendar year. The head of the elephant – the logo of the UA wonderful – we said, replacing the tail, and vice versa, regardless of the consequences. No reason, no questions to ask, this “reform university” top-down had to happen tomorrow if no one seemed to know how.
From zero, when the current abuses to continue, a huge crisis was caused by qualitatively new university. All energies are now aimed at tearing the time-tested and academically sound, though not a complete system for the annual honors in education. A major structural change with huge implications for the quality and structure of universities has broken through, as has already been decided, instead, the democratic idea has been proposed, with patience and an open mind to discuss the members of the academic community.
Neither the problems at international level with regard to the alleged superiority of education per semester, especially at the graduate (UG) level, no serious academic concerns, educational and functional expressed by teachers and students about semester AU have even been recognized. It was thought that all components on the website of the University of operation that would change – or if this is possible or desirable – if this “reform” is to enrich the real background of academics and intellectuals to the AU.
Adhocism irresponsible and inconsiderate to replace the bases, and Preparatory well-defined structures. Nobody seems to know, for example, how semester-based programming should be two or university exams completed in a range of years. Question decisions made at meetings of the semesters of service teaching in all schools and “battles” of the patient and brainstorm that gave us important curriculum denied, and teachers have to improvise structures courses, truncate existing documents or invent new ones during the night.
If the experience of cutting and pasting semesterisation in 13 science courses is to be believed, the prospect of ‘University-wide degradation of the substance of teaching and learning, a huge peak of alienation and anxiety for students and teachers in a large exclusion disadvantaged students, increasing the failure and drop-out, and incredibly the administrative chaos of DU staring us in the front, maybe even collapse, and sacrificed on the altar of commercialization of this university.
Worse, semesterisation, unable to attack the structures, practices, and the spirit of democratic functioning has blasted a hole through the sense of freedom without which the university can survive.
The conscious and aggressive exclusion of most members of the academic community from the process of university reform, “the contempt for discussion and exchange of ideas, the removal of Delhi University Teachers’ Association (Duta) the constant intimidation and harassment of teachers, and to manifest violation or, at best, a reduction of democratic procedures for legal niceties when filing a bad omen for the future of rights, autonomy and the rule of law, if Central to the creation of new ideas and ways of being in the universities.
Incredibly, even the Delhi High Court (HC), reserving problem view it is of the order in November 2010 has allowed the administration to proceed semesteristion DU as more teachers to restrict the rights of dissent and protest.
The “Gifts” armed with emergency powers on the warpath, the judiciary and the police in tow, it’s you, wrapped in fear, suffer more losses as possible and be destroyed.
The merits or demerits of education semesters semi hand to depleted uranium, driven by capital in the short and long term and the state rather than by logic and academic requirements, has made this university academic brink of disaster. “The university reform”, ironically, was the cry, the denigration of Teachers of cunning. The implications for generations of students and professors at the UA, and for higher education and democracy are really serious.
Movement of the AU teachers’ down but not by the needs of discharge of thought, speech, debate, writing, Duta and collective protest the decision by the university for fear of the moment. Going AU and beyond the borders, it is necessary to affirm the role of all members of the university community in re / college with the wealth of insights and understanding that can only come from a free and democratic debate on the issues that require web urgent attention.
Before that happens the AU will remain vulnerable to the continued imposition of the truths of some poor, such as abolishing the pre-admission form this year, exacerbating the current crisis. The hope is the current silence between teachers, mainly due to force reluctant complicity in unacceptable reserves the possibility of trouble, criticism, “unsaid” and the progressive vision of education for sparks “springtime of nations “.
Opening dissonant notes for 2011-12 can not hide from symphonic harmonies.
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