UGC’s latest plan to allow students to pursue two simultaneous academic programmes, including full-time degree courses. UGC Chairman M Jagadesh Kumar told.
He said that in accordance to the National Education Policy (NEP), the latest move aims to offer flexibility and personalisation of higher education and even allow multidisciplinary education across various domains for students.
With this decision, students will be able to pursue two UG or PG degrees/diplomas together in the physical+ physical mode or physical+ online mode or online+ online mode.
Kumar also notified that top universities of India have been given the choice to offer online degree courses and that fresh guidelines for the same will be notified in two weeks.
The official list of UGC guidelines for pursuing two simultaneous degrees or academic programmes is expected to be uploaded on the UGC website tomorrow. The new move will be application from the academic year 2022-23 onwards.
The UGC chairman said that the flexibility of allowing students to pursue two degrees at the same times through various combinations of modes will help students educate themselves in the way they want, subject to what the HEIs decide
Kumar said that this was a time when open, distance and online education modes were growing and rapidly being adopted by many universities across India.
He said that the NEP wants to facilitate multiple pathways of education including a combination of offline and online modes that offers the freedom to students to build multiple skills.
UGC Guidelines on pursuing two degrees together:
Some of the highlights of the new UGC guidelines regarding pursuing two courses simultaneously as discussed in the virtual meeting are:
1. Students can pursue two full-time academic programmes in the physical mode provided that the class timings do not overlap. Eg. A student can pursue BA classes in the morning and B Com classes in the evening.
2. Students will be able to pursue two UG or PG degrees/diplomas together in the physical+ physical mode or physical+ online mode or online+ online mode.
3. The two programmes may be pursued from the same university or from different universities
4. Students will be allowed to pursue multidisciplinary programmes. Eg. BA History with BSc Mathematics, B Com Honours with a diploma in Data Science, etc.
5. The degrees and diplomas that the students will be earning through higher education in the two-degree format will be governed by UGC and the statutory bodies of higher education.
For detailed notification, visit https://www.ugc.ac.in/pdfnews/5729348_Guidelines-for-pursuing-two-academic-programmes-simultaneously.pdf?_gl=1*1ak8zcl*_ga*MTEzMTIzMzIwNC4xNjQ5ODY3NDI5*_ga_FGHYECNLXB*MTY0OTg2NzQyOC4xLjAuMTY0OTg2NzQyOC4w
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