DU Academic Panel Clears Syllabus Redo Amid Dissent

Key takeaways from meet Dissent from elected members over bypassing departmental committee citing 'protocol violations'

- Aheli Das

NEW DELHI: Delhi University's (DU) Academic Council (AC) on Saturday approved changes to the syllabi of several departments based on recommendations made by its standing committee on academic affairs, despite dissent from multiple elected council members. The changes were passed during a meeting of the AC, the university's top academic body.

Several elected members submitted dissent notes during the zero hour, raising objections over the bypassing of statutory procedures. "If the standing committee makes suggestions, those must go back to the Committee of Courses (CoC) of the concerned department. CoCs consist of subject experts who have the mandate to frame or revise syllabi. But in this case, the process was short-circuited despite protests from heads of departments and AC members," said one academic council member, who was among the signatories of a dissent note.