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it is now possible for someone to reach 5th year even without passing a single module in the previous 8 semesters
https://theprint.in/india/education/student-suicides-spur-changes-at-nlu-delhi-no-detention-policy-to-compassionate-leave/2318042/
- An expanded mental health department is obviously something which should have happened a while ago. If anything, they haven't gone far enough. Only two extra counsellors? The risk of waiting lists isn't taken away!
- This no year loss policy is just setting people up for failure! If you have failed courses, you clearly have to resit the appropriate assessment(s) in order to pass. You just aren't ready to cope with more difficult work, so allowing somebody in that position to progress like that to the next developmental year of study is just out of order! Alright, if it's one course in one year, no need to prevent progression from one developmental year to another. Just make them take the exams at the next available assessment opportunity. But permitting accumulation of failure just gives false hope and devalues the degree. This is not how the world's best universities operate; NLUD wasn't operating in wellbeing terms in any way like the world's best universities, and they aren't now either.
A year loss is a practical way of clearing up it back papers before graduating and also a message to work hard before you join the brutal world of law firms. It’s ridiculous that mental well being is used as a pretext to allow students to progress without clearing papers.