Clustering Of Colleges UGC Proposal
Source : The Hindu
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What is discussed under Clustering Of Colleges UGC Proposal?
- About the Proposal
Why in News ?
The University Grants Commission (UGC) has finalized guidelines for transforming colleges and universities into multidisciplinary institutions.
Key Facts
- Promoting multidisciplinary institutions was a key recommendation of the National Education Policy 2020.
- Guidelines for Transforming Higher Educational Institutions into Multidisciplinary Institutions: These aim to help State governments and universities frame appropriate rules and policies.
- The guidelines also identify student orientation programmes as an important element to familiarize them with the new options available to them.
- capacity-building for faculty so that they can teach, train and research in multi-disciplinary academic programmes such as Annual Refresher Programme in Teaching (ARPIT) as well as investment in learning assessment tools.
- The merger of single-stream institutions, with other multidisciplinary institutions under the same management or different management.
- The member colleges in a cluster will continue to function as affiliated colleges under the university in the initial phase
Three different approaches
- Clustering of Colleges: UGC has suggested academic collaboration between institutions through “clusters” of higher education institutions (HEIs) in order to promote multidisciplinary education and research in online and offline modes.
- Restructuring of Higher education: Merger of single-stream institutions with other multidisciplinary institutions under the same management or different managements as well as expanding the number of departments in a college or university by adding new subjects such as languages, literature, music, Indology, sports etc.
- Capacity-building for faculty so that they can teach, train and research in multidisciplinary academic programmes such as through initiatives like Annual Refresher Programme in Teaching (ARPIT) as well as investment in learning assessment tools.
National Education Policy 2020:
- Multidisciplinary institutions: It envisages that by 2040 all HEIs should aim to become multidisciplinary with student enrolments in thousands.
- Underserved regions: It also says that more HEIs will be established and developed in underserved regions to ensure equity and inclusion.
- Creating new institutions: By 2030 there should be one large multi-disciplinary HEI in or near every district, achieved by creating new institutions apart from consolidating, expanding and improving existing HEIs.
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