Yearender: A yr of educational overhaul, main initiatives on the anvil for 2023

Express News Service

NEW DELHI: The maiden Common Universities Entrance Test (CUET), touted as a single-window resolution to cumbersome school admissions, had a bumpy begin in 2022, however the yr belonged to the brand new National Education Policy overhauling the nation’s tutorial construction.

Major promotion of mom tongue, together with instructing engineering and medication, and shortly authorized schooling, in native languages, immense flexibility to college students by offering them a number of entry and exit in programs and easing PhD guidelines are sweeping measures that may change the face of schooling within the coming years.

The yr additionally noticed India’s premier academic institutions – Indian Institutes of Technologies (IITs) and Indian Institutes of Managements (IIMs) – bettering their worldwide rankings, paving the way in which for strengthening their international presence by opening up offshore campuses.

It might be two-way visitors as international universities open their campuses in India, making international requirements in greater schooling inexpensive at residence.

The coming yr will deal with one of many main initiatives of the schooling ministry, the National Credit Framework (NCrF), for which Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan launched a public session on October 19.

The first-of-its-kind framework in India, NCrF, to be launched in 2023, goals to combine tutorial schooling and skilling. It is a unified credit score accumulation and switch framework, which applies to highschool, greater and vocational schooling offering flexibility to college students to select their studying trajectories, because it permits for mid-way course correction or modifications in line with their skills and pursuits.

On the anvil can also be the Higher Education Commission of India, for which a committee was set as much as merge the University Grants Commission (UGC), All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) and National Council for Teachers Education (NCTE). Though the proposal first got here in 2018, it is among the vital transformations steered beneath NEP 2020.

According to University Grants Commission Chairperson Prof M. Jagadesh Kumar, in 2022, the Commission launched many initiatives and inspired greater academic establishments (HEIs) to implement them successfully.

One such achievement was when a number of academic establishments registered for the Academic Bank of Credits (ABC), which paved the way in which for importing college students’ credentials on the ABC Portal.

ABC is a digital/digital storehouse that incorporates data on the credit earned by particular person college students all through their studying journey. It will allow college students to open their accounts and provides a number of choices for coming into and leaving schools or universities.

“With the enabling provision of allowing students to pursue two academic programmes simultaneously, the UGC has created multiple formal and informal learning pathways. UGC’s Professor of Practice will pave the way to increase institution-industry collaborations,” Prof. Kumar advised TNIE.

The revised Ph.D guidelines that may facilitate the direct entry of four-year UG college students into Ph.D programs, taking away the necessary situation of publications and allowing analysis and instructing assistantships, is the opposite spotlight.

The yr additionally noticed the announcement of twinning, joint or twin levels with tutorial collaborations between Indian and international greater academic institutes.

However, one of many vital challenges this yr was filling college vacancies – a whopping over 11,000 positions – in 45 Central Universities (6,180), IITs (4,502), and IIMs (493); but in addition in Kendriya Vidyalayas (14,000 instructing and non-teaching posts) and Navodaya Vidyalaya (4,227). The ministry mentioned the method to refill these positions has begun in a “mission mode.”

Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti (NVS) Commissioner Vinayak Garg advised TNIE all vacancies of instructing and non-teaching employees are being crammed in mission mode. Of the entire of 4227 notified vacancies, 757 have been crammed. “All the vaccines will be filled by April 2023,” he mentioned.

So what extra is in retailer for subsequent yr?

A greater coordinated and glitch-free CUET, which the UGC chairman has careworn, was neither to make board exams irrelevant nor give a push to teaching tradition in order that each college students and their mother and father don’t agonise by way of travelling lengthy distances, change of examination centres on the final minute and even technical glitches whereas taking the examination.

A major reform on the cardboard is the National Higher Education Qualification Framework, which might be instrumental within the improvement, classification, and recognition of {qualifications} to ease the mixing of vocational schooling into greater schooling.

Another main initiative would be the National Digital University, which is more likely to be established on the hub and spoke mannequin, and would carry collectively numerous universities with no higher cap on the variety of seats in order that Class 12 cross college students can entry greater schooling.

The Four-Year Under-Graduate Programme (FYUP) to be adopted in all greater schooling establishments from 2023-24 tutorial session is yet one more step that goals to develop pupil’s capabilities throughout a variety of disciplines, together with sciences, social sciences, arts, humanities, languages, in addition to skilled, technical, and vocational topics.

NEW DELHI: The maiden Common Universities Entrance Test (CUET), touted as a single-window resolution to cumbersome school admissions, had a bumpy begin in 2022, however the yr belonged to the brand new National Education Policy overhauling the nation’s tutorial construction.

Major promotion of mom tongue, together with instructing engineering and medication, and shortly authorized schooling, in native languages, immense flexibility to college students by offering them a number of entry and exit in programs and easing PhD guidelines are sweeping measures that may change the face of schooling within the coming years.

The yr additionally noticed India’s premier academic institutions – Indian Institutes of Technologies (IITs) and Indian Institutes of Managements (IIMs) – bettering their worldwide rankings, paving the way in which for strengthening their international presence by opening up offshore campuses.

It might be two-way visitors as international universities open their campuses in India, making international requirements in greater schooling inexpensive at residence.

The coming yr will deal with one of many main initiatives of the schooling ministry, the National Credit Framework (NCrF), for which Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan launched a public session on October 19.

The first-of-its-kind framework in India, NCrF, to be launched in 2023, goals to combine tutorial schooling and skilling. It is a unified credit score accumulation and switch framework, which applies to highschool, greater and vocational schooling offering flexibility to college students to select their studying trajectories, because it permits for mid-way course correction or modifications in line with their skills and pursuits.

On the anvil can also be the Higher Education Commission of India, for which a committee was set as much as merge the University Grants Commission (UGC), All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) and National Council for Teachers Education (NCTE). Though the proposal first got here in 2018, it is among the vital transformations steered beneath NEP 2020.

According to University Grants Commission Chairperson Prof M. Jagadesh Kumar, in 2022, the Commission launched many initiatives and inspired greater academic establishments (HEIs) to implement them successfully.

One such achievement was when a number of academic establishments registered for the Academic Bank of Credits (ABC), which paved the way in which for importing college students’ credentials on the ABC Portal.

ABC is a digital/digital storehouse that incorporates data on the credit earned by particular person college students all through their studying journey. It will allow college students to open their accounts and provides a number of choices for coming into and leaving schools or universities.

“With the enabling provision of allowing students to pursue two academic programmes simultaneously, the UGC has created multiple formal and informal learning pathways. UGC’s Professor of Practice will pave the way to increase institution-industry collaborations,” Prof. Kumar advised TNIE.

The revised Ph.D guidelines that may facilitate the direct entry of four-year UG college students into Ph.D programs, taking away the necessary situation of publications and allowing analysis and instructing assistantships, is the opposite spotlight.

The yr additionally noticed the announcement of twinning, joint or twin levels with tutorial collaborations between Indian and international greater academic institutes.

However, one of many vital challenges this yr was filling college vacancies – a whopping over 11,000 positions – in 45 Central Universities (6,180), IITs (4,502), and IIMs (493); but in addition in Kendriya Vidyalayas (14,000 instructing and non-teaching posts) and Navodaya Vidyalaya (4,227). The ministry mentioned the method to refill these positions has begun in a “mission mode.”

Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti (NVS) Commissioner Vinayak Garg advised TNIE all vacancies of instructing and non-teaching employees are being crammed in mission mode. Of the entire of 4227 notified vacancies, 757 have been crammed. “All the vaccines will be filled by April 2023,” he mentioned.

So what extra is in retailer for subsequent yr?

A greater coordinated and glitch-free CUET, which the UGC chairman has careworn, was neither to make board exams irrelevant nor give a push to teaching tradition in order that each college students and their mother and father don’t agonise by way of travelling lengthy distances, change of examination centres on the final minute and even technical glitches whereas taking the examination.

A major reform on the cardboard is the National Higher Education Qualification Framework, which might be instrumental within the improvement, classification, and recognition of {qualifications} to ease the mixing of vocational schooling into greater schooling.

Another main initiative would be the National Digital University, which is more likely to be established on the hub and spoke mannequin, and would carry collectively numerous universities with no higher cap on the variety of seats in order that Class 12 cross college students can entry greater schooling.

The Four-Year Under-Graduate Programme (FYUP) to be adopted in all greater schooling establishments from 2023-24 tutorial session is yet one more step that goals to develop pupil’s capabilities throughout a variety of disciplines, together with sciences, social sciences, arts, humanities, languages, in addition to skilled, technical, and vocational topics.