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Tips for Writing Abstracts

The writing of an abstract is a far more complex affair than one would initially suspect. Many presume that the authoring of an abstract is simple because it is the briefest portion of a paper in terms of word count. This is possibly because the abstract is really just fancy speak for the “summary” of [...]

Special Buses for Disabled Students

The road to Delhi University will be much easier for the differently-abled from this year. DU is starting the special bus for students with special needs on the north campus from Tuesday. The bus service was inaugurated Monday, 13th July 2009.
Nearly 380 differently-abled students have registered with DU this year. As the new session begins [...]

Academic Reforms in the Delhi University

Every University keeps on changing, restructuring and reforming its academic programmes and procedures and the Delhi University too make necessary reforms to help students. The academic processes constitute the core of the University. Among the millennium initiatives, the highest priority was attached to academic reforms. To strengthen teaching and learning, it became necessary to transform [...]

High Cut-offs Keeps Students Away

Contrary to expectations of a huge jump in Delhi University cut-offs across the board, it is only the North Campus colleges which have increased the minimum marks for admission.
Ramjas College got over one lakh applications this year with a large number of 90 percenters among them. And it was very difficult for the college not [...]

DU Planning to Roll Out the Semester System

The university got the much-awaited approval for the semester system from its academic council (AC) on Friday, clearing the way for its implementation at the undergraduate level from the 2010-2011 academic session. The AC meeting debated the issue before approving it with an overwhelming majority.
Speaking to TOI, Vice-Chancellor Deepak Pental said: “The younger generation must [...]

First Ever Online Exam at DU

Delhi University held its first ever online examination with the 60 minute paper on environmental sciences conducted for the students of BSc at Miranda House and Deen Dayal Upadhyaya (DDU) College. Taking this as a step towards the examination reforms and semester system to be introduced in 2010 at the undergraduate level, this could be [...]