Students can extend or reduce the duration of the course for graduation from the next academic year. The University Grants Commission (UGC) is working on a new flexible approach for completion of graduation degrees from the academic year 2025-26. Under this, students will be able to reduce the graduation degree which takes 3 to 4 years to complete in two to two and a half years.
In an event at IIT Madras on Thursday, UGC Chairman M. Jagdish Kumar gave this information. IIT Madras director V Kamakoti suggested this policy. UGC has been working on this for a long time.
What changes can be made in the duration of the course?
Question: Which students will benefit? Answer: Graduating students from any discipline.
Question: What options will be available? Answer: A graduation degree which is 3 to 4 years can be reduced to two to two and a half years. At the same time, students who are weak in studies can extend their graduation program time to 5 years.
Question: Why is UGC considering this pattern? Answer: Chairman M. Jagdish Kumar said that the UGC wants to simplify the higher education system. With this more and more students will join higher education.
Question: When will it be implemented? Answer: Nothing has been decided yet. However, it is proposed to be implemented from the academic year 2025-26.
Question: How can students choose these options? Answer: The UGC is yet to elaborate on this, but has said that if talented students complete the credit score in 2 years, they won't have to wait 3 or 5 years for a degree.
Students can also take breaks between degrees Earlier, under the National Education Policy-2020, the UGC has also introduced an option for students to take a break between degrees. A student can take a break from the course if he wishes and come back later to complete it. Regarding this, the UGC Chairman said that our job is to make students critical thinkers. We want to make them so that they can help in the development of the country.
He further said, UGC has already provided multiple entry and exit options, so that weaker students can take a break and complete the course of their choice. Our aim is to make students more flexible and provide more opportunities.
Along with this, Jagdish Kumar said that Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan has reviewed the progress of NEP 2020 and discussed its implementation in the higher education meeting held in Delhi on November 12-13. States like West Bengal and Kerala opposed the education policy. These states started four-year degree programs. Tamil Nadu did not adopt the NEP and instead drafted a state education policy. In such a case this would be a good start.
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