NEW DELHI: Efforts are being made to create an integrated higher education system in the country.
Under this, all courses will be made available in higher education institutions in the country and colleges with 3,000 or more students will become degree-granting multidisciplinary autonomous institutions.
With these changes, students will get more options on one hand than before and on the other hand educational institutions will get more autonomy.
Efforts are being made to build a consensus to implement these changes. For this, all the higher educational institutions across the country have been contacted.
In this, not only higher education institutions but state governments will also participate.
The biggest advantage of these changes will be that students will be able to take any other subject or full time course as per their interest in their institution other than their main subject.
These new changes were envisaged University Grants Commission ,UGCEarlier, but now concrete steps are being taken in this regard.
Recently, the UGC had issued a guideline in this regard. According to the guideline, students of higher educational institutions will be able to take admission in two courses at a time.
Along with this, orientation and counseling of students will be done for this in every institute associated with higher education.
All universities and state governments across the country will play an important role in implementing the new system.
UGC Chairman Prof. M. Jagdish Kumar told IANS that at present all universities and state governments have been asked to make rules in this regard for their institutions.
According to the UGC chairman, the integrated higher education system would include vocational higher education sector, vocational education and holistic education. It has also been suggested to open necessary departments for multi-disciplinary subjects under the integrated higher education system.
The essential departments that have been suggested to be opened in higher education institutions include various languages, literature, music, philosophy, Indology, art, dance, theatre, education, mathematics, statistics, pure and applied science, sociology, economics, sports, translation. Are included. and topics like interpretation.
Under the new changes, higher education institutions such as universities and single domain educational institutions offering less, engineering, education or medical studies will also now have to adopt this multidisciplinary mode.
After these new changes, there will be three types of higher education institutions in the country – research universities, teaching universities and autonomous colleges. If there are more than 3,000 students, the college itself will be able to award degrees.
UGC maintains that there are domain specific stand-alone colleges and universities in India. Even in multidisciplinary higher education institutions, the disciplinary boundaries are so rigid that very few opportunities are explored for learning different subjects.
Internationally, there is a rapidly growing culture of maximizing productivity with a greater focus on the establishment and maintenance of a multidisciplinary university, research and development, innovation and incubation. Therefore, it is relevant for the higher education system to phase out stand-alone and domain-specific institutions to create cluster and multidisciplinary higher education institutions instead of the existing one.
Along with this, a new system has also been added, under which students pursuing higher education in the country can now pursue the same course through three different mediums. Under this, provisions are being made in higher education institutions so that students can complete their courses through online mode and distance learning, apart from the traditional classroom study. It can be implemented from the academic session 2022-23.
Under this, all courses will be made available in higher education institutions in the country and colleges with 3,000 or more students will become degree-granting multidisciplinary autonomous institutions.
With these changes, students will get more options on one hand than before and on the other hand educational institutions will get more autonomy.
Efforts are being made to build a consensus to implement these changes. For this, all the higher educational institutions across the country have been contacted.
In this, not only higher education institutions but state governments will also participate.
The biggest advantage of these changes will be that students will be able to take any other subject or full time course as per their interest in their institution other than their main subject.
These new changes were envisaged University Grants Commission ,UGCEarlier, but now concrete steps are being taken in this regard.
Recently, the UGC had issued a guideline in this regard. According to the guideline, students of higher educational institutions will be able to take admission in two courses at a time.
Along with this, orientation and counseling of students will be done for this in every institute associated with higher education.
All universities and state governments across the country will play an important role in implementing the new system.
UGC Chairman Prof. M. Jagdish Kumar told IANS that at present all universities and state governments have been asked to make rules in this regard for their institutions.
According to the UGC chairman, the integrated higher education system would include vocational higher education sector, vocational education and holistic education. It has also been suggested to open necessary departments for multi-disciplinary subjects under the integrated higher education system.
The essential departments that have been suggested to be opened in higher education institutions include various languages, literature, music, philosophy, Indology, art, dance, theatre, education, mathematics, statistics, pure and applied science, sociology, economics, sports, translation. Are included. and topics like interpretation.
Under the new changes, higher education institutions such as universities and single domain educational institutions offering less, engineering, education or medical studies will also now have to adopt this multidisciplinary mode.
After these new changes, there will be three types of higher education institutions in the country – research universities, teaching universities and autonomous colleges. If there are more than 3,000 students, the college itself will be able to award degrees.
UGC maintains that there are domain specific stand-alone colleges and universities in India. Even in multidisciplinary higher education institutions, the disciplinary boundaries are so rigid that very few opportunities are explored for learning different subjects.
Internationally, there is a rapidly growing culture of maximizing productivity with a greater focus on the establishment and maintenance of a multidisciplinary university, research and development, innovation and incubation. Therefore, it is relevant for the higher education system to phase out stand-alone and domain-specific institutions to create cluster and multidisciplinary higher education institutions instead of the existing one.
Along with this, a new system has also been added, under which students pursuing higher education in the country can now pursue the same course through three different mediums. Under this, provisions are being made in higher education institutions so that students can complete their courses through online mode and distance learning, apart from the traditional classroom study. It can be implemented from the academic session 2022-23.