DU SOL committee to review errors in 2 political science papers

NEW DELHI: University of Delhi’s School of Open Learning (SOL) has constituted a review committee over minor errors in the Self Learning Material (SLM) of two political science papers. Principal of SOL, Ajay Jaiswal informed that during the Academic Council (AC) meeting of the university on August 11, 2023, some errors were pointed out in the SLM of two papers of political science by some elected AC members.

Jaiswal informed that the School of Open Learning had constituted a review committee of educationists on August 12, 2023, with immediate effect. The committee will consider the translation, typographical, grammatical, and faculty errors.

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The SOL principal further stated that “ Content writers along with the editorial board prepared the study material which was also checked for plagiarism. Stringent review mechanism is the top priority of the Institution.”

Jaiswal said that the National Education Policy (NEP) was introduced at Delhi University (DU) in both the regular as well as the distance mode. After the implementation of NEP 2020 and the Undergraduate Curriculum Framework (UGCF) curriculum 2022, SOL followed the scientific method of creation of self-learning material (SLM) as mentioned in Distance Education Bureau (DEB) latest guidelines of July 2022.

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As per the university, ” School of Open Learning (SOL) empanelled content writers from prestigious Indian Universities through an open-ended advertisement in two major national dallies. The content writers for each subject are shortlisted after an interaction with the senior professor of the concerned subject.”