SOL students demand study materials and more classes

NEW DELHI: Postgraduate students of political science at Delhi University's School of Open Learning will be tested in November on study material they have not yet received. In a letter to the executive director of SOL, they have not only demanded that study material be provided immediately but also draw attention to a number of other issues including the standard of teaching.

They pointed out that they get only 15 days of classes in a semester as opposed to the 90 that students attending regular university get and argued that they require greater support. "We are left at the disposal of teachers who have no experience of teaching at the MA level. Since the syllabus for the exams is set by the department of Political Science, the course should be taught by the teachers teaching in the department...or by the faculty of [SOL]," wrote political science students, DU SOL Students' Union and Krantikari Yuva Sangathan.

They demanded that there should be two days of class every week, that their exam answer scripts are checked by SOL or the department's faculty, results are declared in time for them to take admission elsewhere and renovation of the library. "The library is in a dismal condition. With very few books and that too in a grim condition, we are deprived of the books even suggested in the syllabus. Moreover, libraries are closed on Saturday and Sundays, the only days when SOL provides us classes," said the letter. The students argued they should be given library card of the Central Library while the SOL library gets renovated.

The SOL is already behind regular DU colleges where curriculum is concerned. Mainstream colleges follow the semester system; SOL is still in annual mode. There is no internal assessment either. "While the students of correspondence mode have to appear for 100 marks theory paper, regular mode has a 75 marks theory paper and 25 marks assigned for assignment given by the teachers teaching the papers," they wrote, adding, "We demand that parity should be brought in marks distributions in both the courses (regular and correspondence)."

The letter and memorandum were submitted to the director on October 7.

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