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Hight court’s refusal on interference in DU’s online open book examination

DU Times — Mon, 05 Jul 2021 11:58:39 +0000

The Delhi High Court on Monday refused to interfere with Delhi University’s decision to conduct online open book exam for intermediate semesters of its law course which could not be conducted last year due to COVID-19, and said that it would not allow students to dictate terms of examination of a professional course. “I am not going to allow students to dictate the terms of exams of a professional course,” a bench of Justice Prateek Jalan said while hearing four petitions by students of second and final year of Faculty of Law, Delhi University.

The court refused to pass a direction to the university to conduct an assignment based examination instead and clarified that it would not substitute the stand taken by the university.

“Court can’t give mandatory direction to the university to conduct assignment based examination… The matter is one which university is authorised to consider. University’s policy decision can’t be interfered with by court,” it said.

The court nonetheless asked the university to declare the results of the examinations as expeditiously as possible. Law Faculty Dean Vandana told the court that the examination in question was likely to be conducted in July itself and another round of exams would be held in September for the benefit of students who are unable to sit in the first round.

Advocate Seema Dolo, appearing for DU, submitted that as approved by the Bar Council of India, the mode of examination, whether online, offline, blended or assignment based – was left to the discretion of the institute concerned.

Advocate Siddharth Seem, who appeared for a final-year law student, argued that the online open book examination for last year’s intermediate semesters II and IV was not in the interest of students.

Pressing for an assignment-based examination, the dates for the online open book examination might clash with the other entrance examinations that the final year students might take for further studies.

In this regard, the court took on record Prof Vandana’s assurance that as far as possible, the date sheet would be decided keeping in mind the dates of entrance examinations. In any event, those who cannot take the examination in July can take it in September, the court added. All four petitions were disposed of the court.

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‘Confidential result’ option now available for DU students

DU Times — Sun, 27 Jun 2021 04:23:40 +0000

Delhi University (DU) students applying for further studies or jobs will now be able to get their “confidential result” online before the official declaration, the university has said in a notification.

Dean Examinations D S Rawat said the process had been “streamlined” to make it more effective.

To apply online, students will need to submit an application that should “clearly mention the reason of requirement of confidential result”, along with the “offer letter that indicates the requirement of result”. They will also need to submit the copy of each semester’s marksheet, admit card, and fee receipt of Rs 500.

Rawat said DU would “try” to issue such results by the end of July. “We have asked students to request their institutions to extend the date of submission of result, given the unusual circumstances due to the pandemic. But if it doesn’t work out, I am willing to write to them as Dean Examinations, and request the same,” he said.

The whole process has been made online. There is no need for students to visit their colleges. The last date for applying is July 3, and for principals to forward it to the university, the deadline is July 6. We did this as last year we had issued around 650 confidential results, but received 4-5 times the number of applications, many of them with incomplete details. This delays the whole process,” said Rawat.

In the notification further read , “Generally it takes 2-3 months’ time to complete the evaluation and declare the result, so students are advised to request the concerned universities/institutions to extend the date of submission of result. Students are advised to talk only to the Nodal Officers of the respective colleges regarding confidential result or result related queries.”

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Digital assessment of OBE examination conducted

DU Times — Thu, 20 Aug 2020 17:30:26 +0000

The online open-book exams for undergraduate and postgraduate courses commenced on August 10 and will go on till August 31.

The Delhi University on Monday wrote to principals of colleges under it stating that the scanned answer sheets submitted in online open-book exams will be evaluated digitally or in electronic mode by subject teachers.

Teachers and students had opposed to this mode of conducting the exams. Students have alleged that they faced issues while uploading answer sheets.

“For the purpose, the examiners shall be provided access to the portal individually. The examiners after evaluation shall submit their response/award on the portal itself which shall be recorded for the purpose of result compilation,” said the letter by the university to the college principals.

They have been asked to make the required information and communication technology infrastructure available to those who will evaluate the answer sheets in the college itself.

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Major data privacy breach at DU UG admit card portal 2020

DU Times — Fri, 03 Jul 2020 15:54:21 +0000

On Thursday, 2 Twitter users reported a serious data privacy breach problems arising in Delhi University UG Admit Card portal on university’s website. This news comes amidst when the varsity is all set to conduct an OBE for its final year students from July 10.

According to the final year students, anyone who knows their roll numbers and gateway password can access the admit cards which carries their personal information including phone numbers and residential addresses. Gateway password is same for all the students of a single college.

Some girl students have complained of receiving calls, text messages and emails from outside companies and unknown sources, which they doubt was because of the privacy breach.

Pankaj Garg, convener of the Indian National Teachers’ Congress (INTEC), has written to university Vice Chancellor, Yogesh Tyagi, flagging the issue. Even an outsider can have access to phone numbers, e-mail and residential address of students, which have been mentioned on their admit cards for the first time, he said.

“There are lakhs of students from diverse socio-economic background and any misuse of this data by any agency, because it is easy to access, may lead to grave consequences, especially when we have girl students of equally good strength. Therefore, the university administration must take notice of this breach of confidentiality and privacy,” the letter said.

Vinay Gupta, Dean (Examinations), Delhi University, said, “There is nothing like that. The issue was arising only for law faculty students. The exam roll numbers of students were in public domain since the results of the students appear in a gazette. We have stopped the admit cards for the law faculty students and they will be sent a one-time password over e-mail to access their admit cards.”

Every year admit cards are handed over to students in person. But because of the prevailing health crises and as exams had to be shifted online, this time admit cards were uploaded on portal for students to download.

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Open Book Exams for Final year at DU postponed by 10 days

DU Times — Sat, 27 Jun 2020 16:36:28 +0000

Delhi University has postponed open book exams for final semester students by 10 days, in view of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. New date sheet will be released on July 3 and exams will now commence from July 10.

Today, Delhi University has announced that it is postponing the proposed online open book exams for the final year students of regular and open learning programmes by 10 days, in view of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The exams were scheduled to begin on July 1.

The OBE mode examinations as an alternative mode of examinations in view of COVID-19 pandemic adopted as one-time measure for academic session 2019-20 for all streams of UG and PG including SOL and NCWEB stands postponed for ten days in view of the prevailing situation of COVID19 pandemic,” the DU notification said.

This method of examination have been furiously resisted by both students and faculties at Delhi University. Although as per the University Grants Commission’s guidelines, released in May, online examination mode was allowed for final-semester exams, the UGC has since been directed to rethink on those gudelines by the Minister of Human Resource Development, Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’.

New Dates For DU Open Book Exams

The University will announce new dates for the final-year undergraduate and postgraduate exams including the School of Open Learning and the Non-Collegiate Women’s Education Board, or NCWEB, on July 3, 2020, and exams will commence from July 10.

According to the notification by Delhi University, pattern will remain same as announced before. Mock tests for the open book exams will start from July 4, the university said.

“All other activities or facilities notified by examination branch related with OBE mode of examinations adopted as one-time measure for the academic session 2019-20 through various notice or notification shall remain unchanged and no further notification shall be issued either as corrigendum or amendment,” DU said in the notification.

The notifications regarding conduct of OBE for persons with disabilities (PwD) and visually impaired (VI) students will also remain the same, DU informed.

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