According to University of Delhi officials return of FYUP is in pipeline. The university had once before in 2014 introduced the Four-Year Undergraduate Programme (FYUP). The four year programme was scrapped by the government after protests by students and teachers the same year.
The Delhi University (DU) may reintroduce its four-year undergraduate (UG) programmes from the upcoming academic session of 2021-22, officials said on Sunday.
The FYUP will return as a part of the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020. A committee that was constituted last year to formulate the guidelines for the implementation of the policy in DU has already submitted its recommendations on the structure of bachelors courses under the four-year model.
According to the proposed structure of UG programmes submitted by the committee тАФ that is known as the National Education Policy 2020 Implementation Committee (NIC) тАФ students in DU will now get the option of pursuing three-year honours or four-year honours in a discipline or a four-year honours in a discipline with research.
DU Vice-Chancellor (acting) PC Joshi said that the recommendations will now be sent to the universityтАЩs statutory bodies тАФ academic council (AC) and executive council (EC) тАФ for their approval.
