Large sections of the University Grants Commission’s draft curriculum framework for its new four-year undergraduate (UG) programme have been plagiarised word for word from guidelines published by the University of Michigan and the University of Arizona, according to analysis by the Democratic Teachers’ Front, a Left-affiliated Delhi University faculty association.
The UGC has referred the allegations back to its own expert committee which drafted the framework, with Secretary Rajnish Jain saying that “there may have been lapses…it is an issue of concern.”
“It is indeed shocking that the UGC Draft Curriculum Framework and Credit System for the Four-Year Undergraduate Programme (FYUP) stacks plagiarised phrases and sentences as motivation for different kinds of courses to be offered under FYUP,” the DTF said in its feedback on the regulations submitted to the UGC on Monday.
