Delhi University organised a ‘special open day’ for female students on Saturday. It highlighted the option of courses under the Non-Collegiate Women’s Education Board (NCWEB) and other courses specially for female students.
The NCWEB programme is an alternative for students who want to obtain degrees from the university but for various reasons cannot attend regular classes. These classes are held on weekends and during the academic breaks and are taught by teachers of the DU who are specially deputed for the task. Currently, there are 26 UG centres and one PG centre with approximately 32,000 students under this course, according to the admissions bulletin.
It offers primarily, B.A. programme which has 312 seats and B.Com which has 202 seats, and the final degree one receives is the same as regular students, officials said. Officials also advised students to identify colleges that are near their place of residence while selecting for admissions in order to ensure that they attended classes. Just as rest of DU, in order to attend examinations students require a minimum 66.6% attendance.
An official in-charge of the NCWEB programme highlighted the fact that students who had gone through the programme, included Fulbright scholars, scriptwriters and police officers among others.
Apart from this, principals of Shahed Rajguru College of Applied Sciences for Women and Laxmibai college also placed various specialised options before the audience for prospective students to apply.
