UGC
syncs PG, UG courses to give students flexibility
New
post graduate programmes will come in three-formats—one-year, two-year and
five-year integrated— with flexibility to move from one discipline of study to
another and for students who qualify undergraduate (UG) with a double major to
opt for any of the two subjects they have majored in.
In
conformity with the restructured undergraduate programmes, the University
Grants Commission approved the new “Curriculum and Credit Framework for
Postgraduate Programmes” in its November 3 meeting and it would be notified on
Saturday.
As
per the National Education Policy 2020, the UG degree was restructured to
either three or four-year duration with appropriate certifications — UG
certificate after one year in a discipline or field including vocational and
professional areas, or a UG diploma after two years of study, or a bachelor’s
degree after a three-year course. The four-year bachelor’s programme, however,
is the preferred option as it allows a whole range of multidisciplinary
education in addition to a focus on the chosen major and minors.
Syncing
the PG programme with the restructured UG, apart from the flexibility to shift
from one discipline to another, as per the new curriculum, also gives an
opportunity to learners to choose the courses of their interest and to switch
to alternative modes of learning (offline, ODL, online learning, and hybrid
modes).
The
new credit framework has also specified the minimum credit to be earned at the
UG level as eligibility for different format of PG degrees. Under the National
Higher Education Qualifications Framework (NHEQF), higher education
qualifications are classified along a continuum of levels from level 4.5 to
level 8. For example, for a 1-year/2-semester master’s programme the
requirement is a bachelor’s degree with honours/ honours with research with a
minimum of 160 credits at level 6.5 on the NHEQF, and for a
two-year/four-semester master’s programme the requirement is a minimum of 120
credits at level 6.5 on the NHEQF.
Moreover,
irrespective of the major or minor disciplines chosen by a student in a UG
programme, a student is eligible for admission in any discipline of master’s
programmes if the student qualifies the national level or university level
entrance examination in the discipline of the master’s programme.
The
document also speaks about universities offering master’s programmes in core
areas such as Machine Learning as well as multidisciplinary fields “AI + X” and
professional areas like health care, agriculture, and law. It stated that the
PG framework should be in sync with National Credit Framework (NCrF) for the
creditization of all learning and assignment, accumulation, storage, transfer
and redemption of credits, subject to assessment.
And
finally, the framework also states that the new structure provides students
with facility to pursue two academic programmes simultaneously — two full-time
academic programmes in the physical mode provided that there is no overlap of
class timings between the two programmes or two academic programmes; one in
full-time physical mode and another in ODL/ Online mode; or up to two ODL/
Online programmes simultaneously.
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Librarian
Rizvi Institute of Management
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