UGC Proposes Apprenticeship, Skill Plan for Undergraduate Students: Academics Sound ‘Course Dilution’ Alarm
Basant Kumar Mohanty | 31 December 2024 | The Telegraph
The University Grants Commission has proposed that multi-disciplinary subjects, apprenticeships and skill enhancement should constitute up to 50 per cent of an undergraduate student’s curriculum, which teachers’ bodies fear will dilute the standards of education and universities’ ability to monitor quality.
“A student has to earn a minimum of 50 per cent of total credits in a (core) discipline to earn an undergraduate degree with a major in that discipline,” say the Draft UGC (Minimum Standards of Instruction for the Grant of Undergraduate Degree and Postgraduate Degree) Regulations, 2024….