UGC proposes National Academic Credit Bank
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
20.05.2019
The University Grants Commission (UGC) has proposed a National Academic Credit Bank system in higher education institutes. Should it gain acceptance, inter-university degrees can be a reality in the near future.
The new initiative proposed in place of the current CBCS—Credit Based Choice System — will allow students to join in one university, pursue it with another university and earn a degree from a different university. “The proposal is similar to that existing in some foreign universities and will give flexibility to the students,” said Bhushan Patwardhan, vice chairman, UGC, while speaking on the sidelines of the three-day Training of Teachers(ToT) for Student Induction Program (SIP) at IIIT-Hyderabad.
He informed that the UGC has already appointed a committee which met a couple of times to study the proposed idea. Soon it will be placed for peer review to explore how to implement it and work out more modalities. “Once it goes through proper deliberations and accepted, we would like to roll it out on an experimental basis or on a pilot project basis in any one of the universities by the academic year 2021. It will be introduced both at the undergraduate and postgraduate level,” Patwardhan said.
He explained further, “Under the new initiative, if a BTech student needs, for instance, 150 credit points, of which 120 are mandatory from the core subjects to finish the course, for the rest, he/she can accrue 30 points by doing hobby courses such as ‘Aaarngetram’ or say ‘Tabla’ from a non-conventional institution. Thus, the students get 120 points or credits from the core subjects before time and can move on to the subsequent level without waiting to spend the stipulated time in the course by redeeming the 30 points earned.”
The proposal was put forward by Patwardhan recently in Pune and is still at the deliberations stage.
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
20.05.2019
The University Grants Commission (UGC) has proposed a National Academic Credit Bank system in higher education institutes. Should it gain acceptance, inter-university degrees can be a reality in the near future.
The new initiative proposed in place of the current CBCS—Credit Based Choice System — will allow students to join in one university, pursue it with another university and earn a degree from a different university. “The proposal is similar to that existing in some foreign universities and will give flexibility to the students,” said Bhushan Patwardhan, vice chairman, UGC, while speaking on the sidelines of the three-day Training of Teachers(ToT) for Student Induction Program (SIP) at IIIT-Hyderabad.
He informed that the UGC has already appointed a committee which met a couple of times to study the proposed idea. Soon it will be placed for peer review to explore how to implement it and work out more modalities. “Once it goes through proper deliberations and accepted, we would like to roll it out on an experimental basis or on a pilot project basis in any one of the universities by the academic year 2021. It will be introduced both at the undergraduate and postgraduate level,” Patwardhan said.
He explained further, “Under the new initiative, if a BTech student needs, for instance, 150 credit points, of which 120 are mandatory from the core subjects to finish the course, for the rest, he/she can accrue 30 points by doing hobby courses such as ‘Aaarngetram’ or say ‘Tabla’ from a non-conventional institution. Thus, the students get 120 points or credits from the core subjects before time and can move on to the subsequent level without waiting to spend the stipulated time in the course by redeeming the 30 points earned.”
The proposal was put forward by Patwardhan recently in Pune and is still at the deliberations stage.
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