DU forms committee to study provisions related to student-teacher ratio after drop in NIRF ranking

The committee which will be chaired by DU Director South Campus Prakash Singh will also hold discussions on the size of the student groups for lectures, practicals and tutorials to ensure the optimal use of the varsity's facilities including lab equipment.

DU forms committee to study and discuss provisions related to student-teacher ratio after drop in NIRF ranking

Delhi University has formed a committee of seven members to study and discuss provisions related to the student-teacher ratio. The move comes days after Vice-Chancellor Yogesh Singh blamed the imbalance in the student-teacher ratio for the slip in the National Institutional Ranking Framework's (NIRF) rankings. This year, in NIRF Ranking, the varsity slipped by 13th position. 

The committee which will be chaired by DU Director South Campus Prakash Singh will also hold discussions on the size of the student groups for lectures, practicals and tutorials to ensure the optimal use of the varsity's facilities including lab equipment.

"The University of Delhi has constituted a committee to study, discuss and revisit provisions related to the student-teacher ratio and size of the student groups for lectures/practicals/tutorials," the DU said in a notification. This year, DU has been ranked behind city-based Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) and Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI), which bagged the second and third positions, respectively, in the NIRF under the university category. Prakash Singh, the head of the newly-formed committee, said "the body is an outcome of the NIRF ranking."

"These exercises are the outcome of that (NIRF) ranking. We have been publishing a lot. You will be surprised to know that our publication ratio is much more than our other universities but we are placed on the 13th. It is also an alarming situation for us," he said.

"We have been doing much better in other areas because of several reasons including perception and student-teacher ratio and because of faculty strength. We are somewhere below," he said.

The committee will focus on improving the student-teacher ratio and ensuring facilities provided by the varsity are used optimally, told Prakash Singh. "The number of students in the varsity has increased owing to the rise in the number of seats due to the introduction of various kinds of reservations including OBC and EWS. But the university did not work on improving the student-teacher ratio. The focus of the committee would be to improve that ratio. Moreover, we will also focus on ensuring whatever facilities we have in our university are used optimally," he informed.

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