New Delhi: The arguable Four Year Undergraduate Programme (FYUP), which turned into scrapped in 2014, can also make a come back as a panel constituted with the aid of the HRD Ministry has endorsed the program amongst undergraduate publications reforms for the brand new National Education Policy. The ministry officials, but, maintained that the committee has submitted its draft and no final decision has been taken yet.
The draft of the brand new National Education Policy (NEP), formulated by a panel led by using former ISRO leader K Kasturirangan, became surpassed over to HRD Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank. He took rate as the Union Human Resource Development minister on Friday.
The panel has advocated reintroduction of the four-year course as part of the undergraduate reforms.
“Both 3-12 months and four-yr courses might be allowed to co-exist, but with a couple of exit and entry alternatives. The 4-12 months program will provide for greater rigor and allow college students to behavior research, optionally,” the draft stated. “Students will graduate with a four-year Liberal Arts Science Education Diploma with Honours, or can also graduate with a B Sc, BA, B Com or B Voc after finishing three years with a suitable of the entirety of credits within their subject,” it stated. The 4-12 months program, the BLA or BLE inside the selected primary and minors, will offer students the opportunity to experience the total variety of liberal arts schooling. The 3-12 months program will cause a Bachelors degree. Both programs may additionally lead to a diploma “with Research”, if the pupil completes a rigorous research mission as specific through the Higher Education Institute (HEI). HEIs might also select to name their three-12 month’s undergraduate diploma a Bachelor of Arts, or Science, or Vocation, or an appropriate professional subject, the draft record advised.
The Four Year Undergraduate Programme (FYUP) introduced with the aid of the Delhi University underneath the regime of previous Vice Chancellor Dinesh Singh was scrapped by former HRD minister Smriti Irani.
The panel has additionally advocated an overhaul of the trainer education gadget with the introduction of the four yr program.
“Teacher preparation for all college levels could be presented handiest in multidisciplinary universities via a four-year program, with the curricula and approaches being made over to deal with modern troubles with teacher practice. “Institutions currently offering the 2 12 months program will both transition to this mode or be phased out; no new 12 months programs might be given recognition,” it stated.
The present NEP becomes framed in 1986 and revised in 1992. A new schooling policy became a part of the Bharatiya Janata Party’s manifesto beforehand of the 2014 fashionable election. Apart from Kasturirangan, the committee had eight individuals, such as mathematician Manjul Bhargava. The experts also took under consideration the report of a panel formed through former HRD minister Smriti Irani and headed through ex-cabinet secretary T S R Subramanian.