Degrees of Dilemma
Ifrah Mufti | 07 July 2025 | The New Indian Express
When the University of Delhi (DU) rolled out its ambitious four-year undergraduate programme in keeping with the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, it promised flexibility, interdisciplinary learning, and research-oriented education. Instead, what unfolded on campuses has been described as a patchwork of confusion, infrastructural gaps, and academic chaos.
With fourth-year undergraduate (UG) classes set to begin this month, the University has quietly offered students the ‘exit option’ after three years — a tacit admission that DU is not ready to sustain the programme it had so confidently championed….