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Every year more than 1.5 lakh students join School of Open Learning, many of whom migrate from regular colleges. What drives students to take this decision?

One of the most common reasons is that as students get promoted to higher semesters, the pressure of college attendance takes a toll on their career aims. Unable to handle the tuitions along with regular classes, the School of Open Learning witnesses a lot of migrations. A number of professional courses like Charted Accountancy and Actuarial Sciences, to name a few, demand work experience or articleship before students can move to higher levels. This is impossible to continue with regular classes and so SOL or correspondence becomes the only option for students intent on completing the course with their degree.

Many students enroll themselves in Delhi University to experience the carefree and fun life that the colleges in DU seem to offer. Being a part of SOL takes that away- the fests, the societies, the friends, and everything else. But it does give students plenty of time to focus on life ahead and excel in their professional course of choice.

SOL and regular colleges give a student the same platform except that regular colleges give students a sense of satisfaction of studying under the aegis of Delhi University, while SOL doesn’t. The criteria to enter management institutes like the IIMs and ISBs are the same for both, School of Open Learning and regular DU colleges, thus motivating students even from “top” colleges like SRCC and Hans Raj to take the leap.

But the fact that a degree isn’t always sufficient to propel students to positions they are capable of, and that the environment of a college does do plenty to ready a student for life after college, the decision to shift to School of Open Learning must be backed with unrelenting motivation and hard work.

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Animesh Agarwal

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Campus Central

Smriti Irani requests VC to reinstate suspended officials, VC denies suspension

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Since DU is an autonomous institution I have put forth my personal appeal to the VC to reinstate the officials. — Smriti Z Irani (@smritiirani) May 31, 2014 Congress leader Digvijay Singh earlier slammed the Modi government accusing it of “not caring for transparency”. He went on to mock the central government by tweeting, “Achhe din aa gaye hein.”

After Smriti Irani’s tweet, Digvijay Singh thanked her and asked to her to come clean with her true educational qualification. Irani and her defendants continue to appeal to the masses to judge her by her work and not on the basis of her educational background. Though certain officials from the University issued statements about the suspension, the Vice Chancellor, through a Press Release yesterday, said that “The University has learnt that no suspension order has been issued to any employee of the School of Open Learning”.]]>

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School of Open Learning might scrap honours degree

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School of Open Learning ( SOL ), Delhi University’s institution which provides correspondence degrees and which is likely to find its name in the Limca Book of Records for adding maximum number of students in a day, might soon lose all the credit it has achieved till date, thanks to UGC’s guidelines which prohibit a university to give two different types of degrees.

This situation has arrived due to the inclusion of FYUP in the colleges run by the University of Delhi. Since, FYUP was not introduced in the correspondence courses, they’re still running on the old 3 year mode which in turn is conflicting with the UGC’s rules. The follow up would be that the university might discontinue the honours degree it is providing through the SOL Programme. Such a decision would mean, that the open learning institution will only be giving out degrees for certificate and vocational courses.

Not only this, according to sources, it is also being alleged that the University is thinking of diverting the funds, which will be appropriated from the admission fees of students who applied for SOL, to start regional study centres for different colleges of the university. Adhering to which, principals of different colleges would also be given an amount of 25000 a month to give out the desired land for the constitution of study centres.

Faculty of SOL seemed perplexed when we asked them about these developments. ‘We have received the information through media only, though we are totally against scrapping the honours degree from SOL’, said Dr. U.S. Pandey, senior faculty in the department of Commerce, SOL.

Delhi University Teacher’s Association ( DUTA ) staged a dharna today condemning the same.

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Admissions 2014

Admissions in School of Open Learning to begin from May 27

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Delhi University’s School of Open Learning will start its admission procedure from May 27 which will continue till August 14. According to the newly implied changes, the admission process this year will be both online and offline. The applicants who miss the last day of form submission can apply till September 1 by paying Rs. 200 as late fee.

As told to Indian Express, C.S Dubey, the Chairperson of SOL said, “In order to encourage students to apply online, students will not have to pay any application fee.” Talking about decentralizing the application process, Dubey added, “We are trying to decentralize the application process. It will be easier for people who come all the way and stand in queues for hours.”

The online application will be available for English, Political Science and B. Com in honors courses. While both online and offline application option is available for BA and B. Com program courses. Payment of the application can also be made through branches of State Bank of India.

The study material which the students get at the time of admission will likely be distributed via pen drives this year, although hard copies will be available for economically weaker students. The study material for SOL is also expected to be made available online. There are also the chances of increment in fee by Rs. 350 in SOL.

“We have procured one hundred computers and laptops and we have set up interactive boards in 10 rooms in SOL. All lectures are going to be video-recorded and put on the website,” Dubey said in a statement given to Indian Express.

For further details, visit the SOL website here.

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Admissions 2013

School of Open Learning expects higher enrolment than last year

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School of Open Learning (SOL), University of Delhi, is expecting an increase in number of applications this year. The number of enrolments last year was 1.32 lakhs, and there are chances that there might be an even higher number of applications this year. One reason for this increase might be the sky-high cut-offs of regular colleges that have left SOL as an option for many aspirants.

As reported earlier, the FYUP has not yet been introduced to SOL and might become a part of the institution from the next academic year. As SOL is largely dependent on course material, the authorities are in need of more time to come up with content that is well-suited and as per the requirements of FYUP. The absence of FYUP could be another reason for the higher number of intakes in SOL this year. Many aspirants might be apprehensive about taking up the FYUP in regular colleges, as it is a new development in the University. They might want to follow the tried and tested method instead of the new one.

SOL is now the only institution under the University of Delhi that is still offering the B.A. Programme and B.Com. Programme courses. What attracts most aspirants is the fact that they get the same degree from the University as any other regular college-going student does. SOL students can do other courses or work alongside their correspondence course.

Admission forms for SOL can be submitted latest by 14th August, after which Rs.200 will be charged as late fees till 2nd September.

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