ashidharan Nair, professor, Painting Dept, Fine Arts Faculty, MSU Baroda, had this to say: credit system was always there! the credit is the hours . duration of the course a student takes. you make your hierarchy depending on the important of the course. Earlier we had credit system which was directly linked to marks. the main paper drawing in undergraduate in fourth year was 900 marks (means 9 credit. it was divided between two terms in a year. and the internal component (marking) was 40 and external (exam) was 60, and the optional was 6 credit and theory was 2 credit each paper. now we moved in to semester system where credits are there but its not assigned to marks but the duration dats the hours of the particular course the students are supposed attend. Based on your academic year you have to divide your working hours in to two parts as sem -1 sem-2 etc. and plan the course based on the hierarchy of the particular specialization. now we have grading system and all the subject is marked out of 100. 4 to 10 scale you set your grades like E,D,C,B,A,A+, O (outstanding) and below 4 is fail /repeat wat ever you want to call ..now we have been asked by ugc to change in to semester system but you have the freedom to device your own evaluation systemconsidering the nature of the discipline. Now in semester system we dont have examination for practicals but a jury at the end of semester to evaluate their entire work and if it is satisfactory they r promoted to the next semester. Now this is wats happening since last three years and we have one more batch left from old system (BVA) to pass out. so the new system is based on semester and grading and evaluation system is semester end jury except theory which have normal examinations. Update: Sashidharan (Painting prof MSU baroda) tells me that they opposed the Choice Based Credit System (CBCS) that the UGC recommended. They have only introduced Semester system, Grading, and what they call optional (there was one Optional when I was studying too). The same optional is being called elective now. The teachers over there are of the general opinion that the credit system as recommended by UGC (involving credit transfers etc) will not work in the fine arts for various reasons. Nandini Chandra, Assistant Prof, English Dept, DU, has this to say: At DU, the whole reform process, semesterization and then the four year programme was geared toward ths CBCS, to make it supposedly in parity with the world American system. This is part of the National Knowledge Commission and the 11th Plan. The idea is to allow for credit transfers, interdisciplinarity, flexible choices for students etc, but the main agenda is credit transfer not so much for the majority of Indian students, but the elite who will be part of the new and upcoming private and foreign universities. so its a way to facilitate the backdoor entry and passage of the foreign university bills which hasnt been passed in the Parliament. But now with the BJP in majority, there is no doubt that it will be passed, also because the congress has made it possible for the opposition to it to be broken. The full-throttle privatization of higher education, so that you can do one year in some foreign university, two years in India, where it is cheaper relatively. Otherwise this credit transfer thing doesnt make sense. They talk about horizontal and vertical transfer of credits. Does it mean that a poor student in backward Bihar can come to JNU and finish the rest of his education? obviously no. It is meant to standardize the system and make it work for the foreign universities. I had written this piece which is dated because it was written 3 years ago. sending you the link. -
Posted on: Fri, 02 Jan 2015 16:38:27 +0000
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