NS University Grants Commission (UGC) has issued an official notification directing the Vice Chancellors of colleges and universities to prepare a database of international students studying in their institutions. The Commission has asked the Higher Educational Institutions (HEIs) to immediately provide information on all international students studying in India, including details of alumni.
“All universities are requested to make available the data of students from the undergraduate level onwards in the attached format through e-mail to uocic2@qmail.com positively by September 15, 2021,” the official statement said.
The UGC has earlier asked universities and colleges to prepare a calendar of events and organize regular competitions, hackathons, workshops, seminars on cyber security/ cyber crimes in their respective campuses. UGC has asked them to organize all programs at regular intervals to strengthen cyber security. Universities and colleges are directed to conduct these programs in compliance with the COVID-19 protocol and social distancing norms.
These steps have been taken to tackle the unforeseen challenges of cyber crime and to develop an ecosystem for cyber security in higher education institutions. Earlier this year in February, the commission had urged the HEI to organize workshops and programs to strengthen cyber security and prepare the youth.
Meanwhile, the Commission has permitted several universities, colleges and institutes to run online distance education courses keeping in mind the challenges in the post-COVID-19 era. The UGC has decided to launch 123 different online programmes, out of which 40 are postgraduate programs and 83 are undergraduate programs through SWAYAM or Study Webs of Active-Learning for Young Aspiring Minds.
Students learning through SWAYAM will have to appear in examinations conducted by the National Testing Agency (NTA) at various centers across the country. According to the official statement, the non-technical UG and PG courses exams for the January-April 2021 session were scheduled to be held on August 28 and 29.
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