Friday, January 23, 2009

B.Com -P may soon disappear from DU curriculum

New Delhi: If all goes as planned, the B.Com (P) course may soon be disappeared from the list of courses offered by the Delhi University (DU).

Presently B.Com (P) is offered in several constituent colleges of the university.

The proposal was discussed in a meeting held on Tuesday chaired by Prof. Deepak Pental, Vice-Chancellor of DU.

Pro vice-chancellor, dean of colleges, and former dean of colleges, head of the department of commerce and commerce faculty members also attended the meeting.

"We are planning to upgrade the B.Com (Pass) offered by DU to an honours programme in all the colleges. But that won't reduce the number of seats for students in the commerce stream," said Prof. Pental.

The university is also planning to remove B.Com (Honours) from the School of Open Learning (SOL) system.

Around 10,000 students are going to affect by this decision, who are looking for admission to B.Com (P) course.

"The cutoff for the B.Com (Pass) is around 83% to 85%, which is quite high to deny a student an honours degree," said Prof. Pental in support of the decision.

But many students are not in favour to remove B.Com (P) from the list of courses offered by the varsity.