Teachers at DU St Stephen’s welcome new guidelines

June 1, 2010 - PRLog -- Delhi University's college St Stephen’s new admission guidelines were adopted at the supreme council meeting on May 26, in which the college decided to stick to admission norms practised before 2008 — during the tenure of former principal Anil Wilson.

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For general students, the weightage for admission continues to be 75% for class XII marks, 10% for class X marks and 15% for the interview.Teachers have welcomed the new guidelines. Many of them had been complaining about the merit gap widening in the classroom as a result of the admission policy of the past couple of years.

SC member Nirmal Andrews said: ‘‘Being a Stephenian myself I wanted the high academic standards set by the college to be restored and I am happy with the new guidelines which will ensure that.’’

In another rule change, unfilled seats in the 3% physically handicapped (PH) category among Christians will also be shifted to the general PH category. Last year these vacant seats were shifted to the SC and ST categories.

Said Malay Neerav, head of St Stephen’s history department, ‘‘The changes made in the admission policy in 2008 were degenerative due to which academic standards have fallen. It is a welcome move on part of the college administration to go back to the pre-2008 cut-off formula for minority admissions.’’

The rules allow the college principals to relax the 15% differential cap in cases of the ‘supernumerary’ (sports category) admissions, for a maximum of six candidates who opt for Urdu as their optional language in the BA programme and for the 3% physically handicapped candidates in all categories.The supernumerary category will have 5% of the sanctioned seats, which this year amounts to 21.

Weightage for admissions: class XII marks 75%; class X marks 10%; interview 15% Merit differential between any reserved category and general merit category not to exceed 15% Up to 50% seats reserved for Christian candidates; out of which 17% for Christian ST and Dalit Christian, l3% for Christian PH, l40% for Church of North India 40% for all other Christian denominations, 50% for non-Christian category; out of which 17% for non-Christian SC/ST, 3% for PH; rest for general merit Candidates to be shortlisted on the basis of class XII marks in the ratio of 1:4 for humanities and 1:6 for science subjects Seats that remain vacant in the Christian pool to be shifted to the general merit category

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