Inaugurating the Karampura campus of the Ambedkar University, Delhi (AUD), on Wednesday, the Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia said that it was the collective responsibility of every principals, education officials to ensure that every student gets a seat in a college or an university after completing class 12.
It is our responsibility to ensure their academic future:
- “The fear among students who have completed class 12 exams and their parents about getting admission in colleges if they don’t score 98-99 per cent, has to be eradicated. Of the 2.5 lakh students who complete class 12 every year in Delhi, we only have seats for about 1.35 lakh. But that leaves out 1.15 lakh students whose academic future we are responsible for that includes not just me, but vice-chancellors, principals and other officials working for higher education.” said Sisodia, who is also heading the education department
- “We need to think about quality and take this institution to such heights that every student who graduates from here is respected by reputed international institutions. We don’t want to open shops in the name of higher education, but at the same time, we also need to concentrate on quantity. There should be enough seats so that parents of every one of the 2.5 lakh students can say: ‘we are not worried because we know our child will get admission somewhere’,” he added, according to a report of Indian Express
The academic session of the Ambedkar University, Delhi will begin from August 1 and this year the university has started bachelor’s programme in four subjects English, History, Economics, and Humanities and Social Sciences from its new Karampura campus.