Relevance of 4-year UG programme and bringing creativity in education: Former DU VC prof Dinesh Singh

Professor Dinesh Singh, Chancellor KR Mangalam University and Former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Delhi, spoke on the relevance of the 4-year UG programme, the need for creativity in learning method and more at the India Today Education Conclave 2022.

The India Today Education Conclave is being held today, June 28, and Professor Dinesh Singh, Chancellor KR Mangalam University and Former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Delhi had a talk with Raj Chengappa, Group Editorial Director (Publishing), India Today Group on ‘Skilling the Young India: The Mantra to Fight Unemployment’.

The professor spoke about his brainchild, the 4-year UG programme, which has been re-introduced through the NEP seven years after it was scrapped in Delhi University.

The dynamic professor also shared quite a few stories that clearly showed how rapidly the field of education had changed not just in India but across the world, and how we desperately needed to take the oppressive pressure out of the education system and instead bring in more creative learning methods.

In his talk at the conclave, Professor Dinesh Singh noted that Professor K Kasturirangan, who was the head of the drafting committee on NEP, had even said at several public forums that the design of the 4year UG courses with multiple entry and exit options was essentially the same one that Singh had come up with earlier.

He said that the purpose of the 4-year UG course was “to help each person to search in and find their true calling in life.”

“The challenge is to create pathways that give individuals the fair amount of leeway, freedom creativity to discover themselves,” he said.

“To bring this about, we needed to bring in some basic principles of good learning and good education,” he added.