UGC: Universities need to review curricula every three years
In order to ensure that students are equipped with skills relevant to the sector that they will specialise in, the University Grants Commission (UGC) has directed all universities to ensure that the curriculum of each and every academic department is reviewed at least once every three years.
The UGC has said that the decision was taken during a meeting that was chaired by the Prime Minister, with secretaries of education and social development.
In a circular issued to Vice-Chancellors of universities, the UGC stated that the review and the revision of the academic curricula should “focus on the existing and potential demand and supply of skill sets to make University/college students employable”. This instruction needs to be adopted by individual universities and colleges affiliated to it.
The circular also noted that interdisciplinary programmes offered by the university can be complemented through a “robust” mechanism of revisiting and revising the curricula at regular intervals. Student organisations have welcomed the move, but point out that there is a need to ensure that teacher training is on a par with this. “Very often, although the syllabus changes, the method of teaching by many of our teachers is still obsolete and not on a par with industry requirements,” said Krithika R., second-year B.Com student off a Bengaluru college.
Ravinandan B.B., State vice-president, All-India Democratic Students’ Organisation, said the move will help students stay up-to-date with the changes in the economy and advancements in science and technology. “The revision should be done in consultation with academic councils of the universities and the UGC should not push any changes,” he said.
Should ‘focus on potential demand and supply of skill sets
to make college students employable’
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