Next year, Delhi University colleges to offer new courses

Sources said during its scrutiny, the university had turned down requests by some colleges who requested to start these courses.

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According to the recommendations, while Shri Guru Nanak Dev Khalsa College, Shivaji College and SGTB Khalsa College have received a nod to start BSc (Honours) in Computer Science, Ramanujan College and Bhaskaracharya College of Applied Sciences have been given approval to start BSc in Computer Science with Statistics.

Sri Guru Nanak Dev Khalsa College and Ramanujan College have also been given approval to start Bachelor of Business Studies course. However, a similar request from Ambedkar College has been turned down. In social sciences, BA (Honours) in Psychology will be offered at Bharti College and Applied Psychology in Ramanujan College.

Sources in the university said deliberations were held on giving new courses to colleges funded by Delhi government, since teacher appointments have been stalled in the colleges after the government stated that appointments will be carried only after governing bodies are functional.

“Discussion was held in this regard because it doesn’t make sense for colleges to get new courses without teaching faculty. But the same was also held in light of other colleges too. The idea was to recommend new courses for colleges that are ready to tackle more students and have requisite infrastructure and faculty,” an official said.

St Stephen’s sees huge demand in courses

More than 7,000 students have registered for a few hundred seats at St Stephen’s college. English (Hons) has attracted the maximum applications (1,223) followed by Economics (Hons) (1,149).

Women applicants have outnumbered men by 60 to 40 per cent, Principal Valson Thampu said. “There are numerous applicants from the science stream. Maximum number of applicants so far are from the lower income strata,” he said.