The Hindu : Colleges advance timings

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Friday, Jun 13, 2003

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Colleges advance timings

By Our Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI JUNE 12. It will be early to college for some students joining Delhi University this year, with some colleges here deciding to advance the opening time of their colleges.

Although a common pattern is unlikely, colleges seem to be deciding between adjusting the extra "hours'' by teaching on the sixth or extra day of Saturday, beginning a little early or making students stay back a little longer. Whichever way, students will now be spending more time in the colleges with the length of classes extended.

While very few colleges have already passed the new time-table that will come into effect from the new academic session, most are still busy with the time table committee meetings that will decide the way in which the extra tutorials and classes lasting 55-minutes will be adjusted.

``We have decided to advance our timings to suit the new time-table, which would mean that the colleges will now start 30 minutes early. This would also help those in the evening college to start their classes on time,'' said a Zakir Husain College official.

As of now, most colleges seem to be preferring the Saturday classes to starting early as it might cause problems for lady teachers. "Most of our teachers are women and shifting the classes to an earlier time in the morning might be a problem with them. We need to look into all aspects and will try to adjust them mostly on Saturday,'' said a official of the Kirori Mal College, which is yet to take a decision on the matter and be holding the time table committee meeting in the coming days.

Many North Campus colleges also point out that since the timing of U-Specials will continue to be the same, advancing the time of opening will not help. "Since we are already a six-day week college we have simply decided to extend the timing. Also, most North Campus colleges are unlikely to shift their timings as the U-Specials reach only by 8-45 a.m. But most students will have to now stay back in college for extra hours for a couple of times in a week,'' says Ramjas College Principal, Rajender Prasad.

The new time-table that comes into effect from the coming academic session aims at making attendance a priority issue among students by making internal assessment accountable for nearly 25 per cent of the total marking and increasing teacher-student interactions through a three hour period that every teacher will have to dedicate for counselling needy students and dealing with their problems.

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