Scrap bucket system in UG courses: Subject experts to TSCHE
Hyderabad: Concerns have been raised over the ‘four bucket system’ introduced by the Telangana State Council of Higher Education (TSCHE) for admissions into degree colleges in Telangana.
The system gives the liberty to the students seeking admission to degree courses to choose from a pool of subjects and this option has reportedly led to disproportionate admissions in colleges. The experts maintained that more students are opting for computer science and its affecting the filling of seats in less popular subjects in the arts stream.
On Saturday, Telangana Council of Higher Education organised a meeting of the members of the BSc Science syllabus revision committee. The meeting saw a near-unanimous pitch from the experts for doing away with the ‘four bucket system’.
Explaining the rationale behind their suggestion, the experts said the current system facilitates repetition of subjects. For example, in the BSc Life science course, bucket B has Bio-Chemistry and bucket C has Biological Chemistry, which are the same subjects. Additionally, ‘food and nutrition’ subject is being offered with similar syllabus under eight different titles.
They suggested that the Biological Chemistry can be removed to avoid duplication. Similarly, Food Technology and Nutrition and Dietetics can be retains while scrapping the remaining subjects. The attendees wanted the council of higher education to revert to the previous rigid course system with a fixed combination of subjects such as BSc (Botany, Zoology and Chemistry) and BA (History, Political Science and Public Administration).
Pitching for capping seat intake in the degree courses to 60, the experts contended that this will even out the enrollments across in-demand and less popular subjects.
