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NEW DELHI: UGC’s new guidelines will now allow students to simultaneously pursue two full-time degree programmes in physical mode. “As announced in the National Education Policy-2020 and in order to allow students to acquire multiple skills, the UGC is coming up with new guidelines to allow a candidate pursue two degree programmes simultaneously in physical mode. The degrees can either be pursued at the same or different universities,” UGC chairperson M Jagadesh Kumar said on Tuesday.
The guidelines say, “With the rapid increase in demand for higher education and limited availability of seats in regular stream, several higher education institutions have started a number of programmes in open and distance learning mode to meet the aspirations of students… The issue of allowing students to pursue two academic programmes simultaneously has been examined by the UGC, keeping in view the proposals envisaged in the NE which emphasises the need to facilitate multiple pathways to learning involving both formal and non-formal education modes.”
Kumar said this is an attempt to provide students with as much flexibility as possible for their “holistic, integrated and learner-centric” education. HEIs can admit about 3% of students for on-campus learning. “Many universities are now offering both ODL and online programmes. With the modified regulations for online education, which we are going to announce in a couple of weeks, many top quality institutes in India will also start offering degrees online,” Kumar said.
“The degree or diploma programmes conducted after the new guidelines are implemented shall be governed by the regulations notified from time to time by the UGC and also by respective statutory and professional councils wherever applicable,” he added.
Some educationists believe that the same objectives could have been achieved without new guidelines. “Multiple skill set should be a subset of a single degree and cannot traverse between two degrees. This decision needs a review considering that there are existing options to achieve the desired objective without a need for this new policy to pursue two degrees simultaneously,” said S Vaidhyasubramaniam, VC, SASTRA deemed university.
The guidelines say, “With the rapid increase in demand for higher education and limited availability of seats in regular stream, several higher education institutions have started a number of programmes in open and distance learning mode to meet the aspirations of students… The issue of allowing students to pursue two academic programmes simultaneously has been examined by the UGC, keeping in view the proposals envisaged in the NE which emphasises the need to facilitate multiple pathways to learning involving both formal and non-formal education modes.”
Kumar said this is an attempt to provide students with as much flexibility as possible for their “holistic, integrated and learner-centric” education. HEIs can admit about 3% of students for on-campus learning. “Many universities are now offering both ODL and online programmes. With the modified regulations for online education, which we are going to announce in a couple of weeks, many top quality institutes in India will also start offering degrees online,” Kumar said.
“The degree or diploma programmes conducted after the new guidelines are implemented shall be governed by the regulations notified from time to time by the UGC and also by respective statutory and professional councils wherever applicable,” he added.
Some educationists believe that the same objectives could have been achieved without new guidelines. “Multiple skill set should be a subset of a single degree and cannot traverse between two degrees. This decision needs a review considering that there are existing options to achieve the desired objective without a need for this new policy to pursue two degrees simultaneously,” said S Vaidhyasubramaniam, VC, SASTRA deemed university.
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