PATNA: Lecturers of the state have welcomed the brand new UGC tips facilitating faculty college students to pursue two tutorial programmes concurrently. Envisaged below the Nationwide Schooling Coverage, 2020, this facility would supply reduction to a lot of students who wished to do double diploma programmes on the similar time, they mentioned.
In the meantime, universities within the state have braced up for enormous modifications within the construction of the tutorial programmes in view of the brand new tips.
In accordance with the brand new tips applied everywhere in the nation on Wednesday, college students will now have the ability to select both a mixture of a diploma programme or an undergraduate (UG) diploma, two grasp’s programmes, or two bachelor’s programmes. If a scholar is eligible to pursue a postgraduate (PG) diploma and in addition needs to enrol in a bachelor’s diploma programme in a unique area, he/she will be able to pursue a UG and PG diploma, concurrently. The category timing for each the programmes should not conflict.
Adopting these tips is elective for universities and will be applied solely after the approval of the colleges’ statutory our bodies. The eligibility standards for every of the programmes will stay unchanged and admissions might be carried out primarily based on the prevailing UGC norms.
Welcoming the UGC new tips, Patna College vice-chancellor Girish Kumar Chaudhary mentioned the college would chalk out revised tutorial programmes within the gentle of those tips in order that college students could profit. “Since all tutorial programmes of the college have minimal attendance necessities for college students to take examinations, the college should devise attendance standards for these programs as nicely. And, this should be endorsed by the state greater training council and the chancellor,” he added.
Munger College’s former vice-chancellor Ranjit Kumar Verma noticed that huge modifications within the construction of the tutorial programmes must be made incorporating and clearly spelt out class timings and availability of school rooms, laboratories and different amenities. A scholar can’t attend two courses on the similar time, he mentioned.
Patna Girls’s School principal Sister M Rashmi mentioned even because the UGC scheme is praiseworthy, the faculty will take a while in reorganising its tutorial programmes in view of the brand new tips. “Courses in each bodily and on-line mode could also be organized for 2 simultaneous programs, however our current expertise says most college students will not be attentive in on-line courses,” she mentioned.
The principal of native A N School, S P Shahi, mentioned he would welcome any such transfer applied by the Patliputra College. College students of the faculty will surely profit from such schemes, he mentioned.