PG Programmes: New PG programme framework to supply extra flexibility

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PG Programmes: New PG programme framework to offer more flexibility

NEW DELHI: New submit graduate programmes will are available in three-formats – one-year, two-year and five-year built-in, with flexibility to maneuver from one self-discipline of examine to a different and for college students who qualify undergraduate (UG) with a double main to go for any of the 2 topics they’ve majored. In conformity with the restructured undergraduate programmes, three yr and most well-liked four-year, the College Grants Fee authorised the brand new “Curriculum and Credit score Framework for Postgraduate Programmes” in its November 3 assembly and can be notified on Saturday.
As per the Nationwide Training Coverage 2020, the UG diploma was restructured to both three or four-year period with applicable certifications — UG certificates after one yr in a self-discipline or discipline together with vocational {and professional} areas, or a UG diploma after two years of examine, or a bachelor’s diploma after a three-year programme. The four-year multidisciplinary bachelor’s programme, nonetheless, is the popular possibility because it permits an entire vary of multidisciplinary schooling along with a deal with the chosen main and minors.
Syncing the PG programme with the restructured UG, aside from the pliability to shift from one self-discipline to a different, as per the brand new curriculum, additionally speaks about alternative for learners to decide on the programs of their curiosity and suppleness to change to various modes of studying (offline, ODL, On-line studying, and hybrid modes of studying).
The brand new credit score framework has additionally specified the minimal credit score to be earned on the UG degree as eligibility for various format of PG levels. Beneath the Nationwide Larger Training {Qualifications} Framework (NHEQF), larger schooling {qualifications} are categorized alongside a continuum of ranges from degree 4.5 to degree 8. For instance, for a 1-year/2-semester grasp’s programme the requirement is a bachelor’s diploma with honours/ honours with analysis with a minimal of 160 credit at degree 6.5 on the NHEQF, and for a two-year/four-semester grasp’s programme the requirement is a minimal of 120 credit at degree 6.5 on the NHEQF at a three-year/six-semester bachelor’s diploma with.
Furthermore, no matter the foremost or minor disciplines chosen by a pupil in a UG programme, a pupil is eligible for admission in any self-discipline of grasp’s programmes if the coed qualifies the nationwide degree or college degree entrance examination within the self-discipline of the grasp’s programme.
The doc additionally speaks about universities providing grasp’s programmes in core areas reminiscent of Machine Studying in addition to multidisciplinary fields “AI + X” {and professional} areas like well being care, agriculture, and regulation. It said that the PG framework needs to be in sync with Nationwide Credit score Framework (NCrF) for the creditization of all studying and task, accumulation, storage, switch and redemption of credit, topic to evaluation.
And eventually, the framework additionally states that the brand new construction offers college students with facility to pursue two tutorial programmes concurrently –two full-time tutorial programmes within the bodily mode supplied that there isn’t a overlap of sophistication timings between the 2 programmes or two tutorial programmes, one in full-time bodily mode and one other in Open and Distance Studying (ODL)/ On-line mode; or as much as two ODL/ On-line programmes concurrently.