UGC asks all affiliated universities to adopt LOCF this academic year
TNN | Sep 10, 2019, 02.53 PM
The UGC has organised several programmes for heads of universities on updating higher-education curriculum in tune with the practices in vogue in leading higher-education institutions elsewhere in the world. A national conference of vice-chancellors held under the aegis of the commission in July 2018 had adopted a resolution to implement the LOCF in all universities in the country. Following this, UGC on August 28, 2019, sent a letter to all vice-chancellors reminding them about the resolution to revise the curriculum framework.
Kerala state higher education council has been persistently prodding the state universities to adopt a LOCF as part of the efforts to improve the quality of higher education, which is facing severe criticism for the appalling academic quality of candidates shaped up by them after spending years and huge amounts of public money. To facilitate the task of revision of curriculum in various subjects, UGC has constituted a subject-specific expert committee. The committees, after having detailed deliberations and wider consultations at the national level have developed the LOCF reports in different subjects.
Kerala university vice-chancellor V P Mahadevan Pillai said the mother university has made elaborate arrangements for attuning the course curriculum to match with the LOCF demands. “We have taken the task seriously and organised workshops for faculties in charge for updating the curriculum,’’ he said.
Kerala University introduce LOCF during 2019-20 academic year itself, Pillai said. The changes will help to improve the quality of education, claimed the vice-chancellor. The varsity would be introducing timely changes in evaluation and teaching methods, he said. The VC’s claims assume significance in view of the criticism that the introduction of choice-based credit and semester system introduced by the university a few years ago ended up as mere window dressing.
TNN | Sep 10, 2019, 02.53 PM
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: University Grants Commission has directed all affiliated universities to adopt and implement during the current academic year itself the Learning Outcome-based Curriculum Framework (LOCF). According to LOCF, each university has to declare in advance the minimum academic qualities that a candidate would achieve upon completing successfully a university programme offered by the varsity.
The UGC has organised several programmes for heads of universities on updating higher-education curriculum in tune with the practices in vogue in leading higher-education institutions elsewhere in the world. A national conference of vice-chancellors held under the aegis of the commission in July 2018 had adopted a resolution to implement the LOCF in all universities in the country. Following this, UGC on August 28, 2019, sent a letter to all vice-chancellors reminding them about the resolution to revise the curriculum framework.
Kerala state higher education council has been persistently prodding the state universities to adopt a LOCF as part of the efforts to improve the quality of higher education, which is facing severe criticism for the appalling academic quality of candidates shaped up by them after spending years and huge amounts of public money. To facilitate the task of revision of curriculum in various subjects, UGC has constituted a subject-specific expert committee. The committees, after having detailed deliberations and wider consultations at the national level have developed the LOCF reports in different subjects.
Kerala university vice-chancellor V P Mahadevan Pillai said the mother university has made elaborate arrangements for attuning the course curriculum to match with the LOCF demands. “We have taken the task seriously and organised workshops for faculties in charge for updating the curriculum,’’ he said.
Kerala University introduce LOCF during 2019-20 academic year itself, Pillai said. The changes will help to improve the quality of education, claimed the vice-chancellor. The varsity would be introducing timely changes in evaluation and teaching methods, he said. The VC’s claims assume significance in view of the criticism that the introduction of choice-based credit and semester system introduced by the university a few years ago ended up as mere window dressing.
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