UGC drafts tips for the grant of UG and PG levels, biannual admissions and a number of entry-exit amongst ideas | Schooling

A listing of adjustments has been instructed by the UGC and the fee has invited feedback/ suggestions from the general public area to acquire a view from a bigger perspective. Solutions could be submitted on or earlier than December 23, 2024.

The next are a few of the amendments instructed by UGC:

• HEIs ready to deal with biannual admissions could admit college students twice a 12 months, in July/August and January/February.
• The scholar consumption capability shall be decided by the college/establishment upfront via its statutory our bodies primarily based on the tutorial and bodily services accessible, the student-teacher ratio, the teaching-non-teaching ratio in accordance with the UGC tips/norms, and different statutory our bodies involved.
• Each HEI shall lay down the norms regarding lecture rooms, laboratories, library, sports activities and well being services, hostel lodging, canteen/ cafeteria, and different services. Whereas prescribing the norms for such services as a situation for affiliation, the college shall hold in view the rules/norms issued by the UGC and different statutory our bodies involved.
• Integration of upper schooling, vocational schooling, coaching & skilling, and internship shall be made as a part of the UG and PG curricular construction, in accordance with the Curriculum and Credit score Frameworks for UG, PG, and Apprenticeship Embedded Diploma Programmes, notified by the UGC.
• HEIs shall present a number of entry and exit choices within the educational programmes.
• Mobility of a scholar from vocational schooling to normal schooling or vice-versa, shall be as per the process prescribed within the related tips issued by the regulatory our bodies involved.

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Aside from these, the fee has additionally instructed amendments with regard to eligibility standards for admission (Undergraduate / Postgraduate), accumulation of credit, attendance requirement, examinations & analysis, integration of talent programs and apprenticeships, certification, and consequence of failure to adjust to the laws.

UGC has additionally shared a Customary Working Process (SOP) for the awarding of accelerated and prolonged levels by Greater Schooling Establishments (HEIs). As per the SOP, HEIs can do the next:

• Might earmark as much as 10% of sanctioned consumption for the Accelerated diploma programme (ADP).
• Might represent a committee to scrutinize purposes acquired on the finish of the primary or the second semester underneath the Prolonged Diploma Programme (EDP) and ADP and choose college students accordingly.
• The Committee constituted by the HEI will consider the credit-completing potential of a scholar primarily based on their efficiency within the first or the second semester and provides its suggestions.
• The Committee shall advocate a discount or a rise within the variety of programs and whole credit per semester, as per the length opted by the scholars.
• Beneath the ADP and EDP, the transcripts ought to document solely the programs the scholars soak up a semester.

Detailed draft right here