New Delhi:
In an unique interview with NDTV, UGC Chairperson M Jagadesh Kumar has talked in regards to the biannual admission course of in keeping with which admissions can both be provided in January-February or July-August from the brand new educational yr. Mr Kumar defined that at the moment, greater training establishments admit college students in a single educational session, which begins in July-August and ends in Could-June. College students who miss the admission course of have to attend one full yr to get admission in schools. The College Grants Fee wished to introduce a system the place college students shouldn’t have to attend for a whole yr for securing admission in schools.
With the choice of the biannual admissions, the establishments can now admit college students twice a yr from the 2024-25 educational session. The choice is geared toward offering extra flexibility to Larger Schooling Establishments (HEIs).
Mr Kumar stated, “The college physique had examined the biannual admission course of in On-line and Open & Distance Studying modes. After UGC permitted two-cycle admissions for the ODL modes, there was a big rise within the variety of enrolments. A complete of 19,73,056 college students enrolled in July 2022, with a further 4,28,854 college students in January 2023. The numbers confirmed {that a} second educational session in a yr enabled practically half one million college students to hitch the diploma programmes of their selection with out ready a full educational yr.”
Answering if the choice was taken by holding all of the stakeholders on board, Mr Kumar stated, “The biannual admission system is a worldwide apply, admissions are performed twice a yr in all world universities. Solely in our nation, it’s accomplished every year. After seeing the response of the scholars within the on-line programme, we wished to supply an analogous choice to the colleges that supply programs in bodily mode additionally. So this isn’t a compulsory requirement for establishments to supply the programs biannually. Solely these schools, which have the required infrastructure and college members, can go for this method.”
On if the choice was geared toward aligning the training with the worldwide requirements, Mr Kumar defined, “It’s the nationwide requirement to extend the Gross Enrollment Ratio (GER), and can also be a robust suggestion of the NEP 2020. So it’s the social accountability of upper academic establishments to extend college students consumption. If admissions are performed twice in a yr and if universities successfully utilise the obtainable infrastructure and the educating college, they will really admit extra college students and assist in bettering the GER.
Mr Kumar asserted that because the transfer has been launched as an choice and never as a compulsory step, it’s has not acquired any objection from any college. The schools would require some planning and time to resolve on how they will implement this biannual system. Solely these universities who’re in place to supply can supply. They’ve six months time to plan and implement the biannual admission system as the following admission course of will likely be held in January-February.