NON-FORMAL
STREAMS
Non-Collegiate
Women's
Education
Board
In 1943, women students were allowed to take some of the
examinations of the University without attending regular
classes. This gave shape to the Non-Collegiate Women's
Education Board. Women residing in Delhi can enroll
themselves as students of the Board, subject to
appropriate eligibility conditions.
The Board
enables thousands of housewives, young women who are
employed or in vocational courses, or those unable to join
full-time courses for a variety of reasons, to attend
classes during holidays and vacations and then obtain
undergraduate and postgraduate degrees from the University
of Delhi.
The Board
began functioning in September 1944 with just 3
students. At present the enrolment is about 15,000.
Till 1971 classes were held in the Arts Faculty
Complex. However, due to the steep increase in the number
of students, several centers had to be opened in various
women's colleges in different parts of Delhi. At present,
postgraduate classes are held in Daulat Ram College
and undergraduate classes are held in the following
colleges: Janki Devi, Jesus & Mary, Kalindi, Laxmi Bai,
Mata Sundri, Shyama Prasad Mukherjee, Vivekanand,
Satyawati, Bharati, and Maitreyi; as well as in Rainbow
English School, Arawachin Bharati Bhawan, St. Margaret
Public School, Vocation Training College St. Mary's
School, and the Bal Mandir School.
Classes are held on Saturdays, Sundays, holidays and
during the autumn and winter vacations. There are in all
55 teaching days in a year.
School
of Open
Learning
The School of
Open Learning was started in as the Directorate of
Correspondence Courses. In 1969, it was redesignated as
the School of Correspondence Courses and Continuing
Education and became a University maintained
institution (College). From 2004 it has been redesignated
as the School of Open Learning and is a constituent
of the Campus of Open Learning within the Department of
Distance and Continuing Education.
The
purpose of establishing this institution was to impart
instruction through an alternative mode to those who
failed to get admission in a regular course of study due
to possible economic, social or physical handicaps. It
was, therefore, intended to benefit those already in
employment, housewives or the handicapped, but over the
years it has also come to cater to the overflows from the
University system.
The
following courses are offered by the School:
BA (Pass)
BA (Hons): English, Political Science
BCom (Pass)
BCom (Hons)
MA: Hindi, Political Science, History, Sanskrit
M.Com
External
Candidates
Cell
This was established in 1970 to facilitate the education
of persons who had passed the qualifying examination from
Delhi and wished to be enrolled as external candidates.
The syllabus and the examination systems are the same as
for regular students of the University.
The
following courses are offered:
BA (Pass)
BCom (Pass)
MA: Hindi, Sanskrit, Philosophy
The minimum marks required for admission to the BA (Pass)
and BCom (Pass) courses are mere pass percentages, but for
MA courses they are the same as prescribed for regular
students of the University.