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Dalit activists join DU teachers against four-year course
Friday May 10, 2013 07:32:38 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: Dalit
activists Friday joined Delhi University (DU) teachers in
protesting against the four-year undergraduate course, saying it
will discourage students from economically and socially
marginalised sections.
"The four-year course will only mean that the students from the
socially and economically backward classes will get marginalised,"
said Udit Raj, chairman, All India Confederation of SC/ST
Organisations.
"The foundation course will be difficult for students from rural
backgrounds to complete it. They also do not have resources to
meet the expenditure of an additional year of education," he said.
"They are trying to make education elitist. Only the elite will be
able to do this four-year course," he said.
Teachers from the university added that the stress on English and
Mathematics in the foundation course will discourage students.
"A student from a rural background today can take admission in
courses like Hindi and Sanskrit. That would not be the case when
the new system is introduced," said Kaushal Panwar, who teaches
Sanskrit at DU.
"Those who have given up mathematics after 12th, how would they do
the foundation course? The material recommended is mostly
publications of foreign authors, which is expensive and in
English. Not everyone can afford that," said Vijaya Venkataraman,
associate professor of Spanish at DU.
The activists and teachers have jointly formed the Joint Action
Front for Democratic Education to protest the move by DU.
The courses under the new four-year undergraduate programme
comprise 11 foundation courses, compulsory for all students in the
first four semesters.
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