The COVID-19 lockdown has authoritatively deferred the 2020-21 academic session, with a government delegated committee suggesting that the customary mid-July start for higher education ought to be pushed to September.
Universities and schools the nation over have been shut since March 16 when the Union government reported a countrywide classroom shutdown as one of the measures to contain the episode.
The seven-part committee, which was set up by the University Grants Commission (UGC) to consider issues identified with the examination and the academic schedule in the wake of the classroom shutdown, presented its report Friday.
Other than the two-month postponed start to the new academic session, the board has additionally suggested that the year-end or semester-end examinations that couldn’t be hung on the timetable ought to be held in July.
Haryana Central University vice-chancellor R C Kuhad headed the board. A-C Pandey, director of Inter-University Accelerator Center; Aditya Shastri, vice-chancellor of Banasthali Vidyapeeth; and Raj Kumar, head of Panjab University, are among its different individuals.
The UGC will frame guidelines on university examinations, and the academic schedule dependent on the committee’s report.
“The guidelines won’t be official on advanced education foundations, however, they will set out the external time limit by which the legislature anticipates that they should begin their new academic year,” said a source, who talked on state of secrecy.
This current committee’s proposal, if and when acknowledged by the UGC, would imply that the Union government would need to move toward the Supreme Court to look for an expansion of the last date for finishing admissions to clinical projects (August 31) and specialized applications (August 15, for example, engineering. These cutoff times are ordered by the top court and henceforth the requirement for its authorization before being tinkered with.
Another committee set up by the UGC to make proposals on online instruction has prompted against requesting that universities direct online examination compulsorily, given the “decent variety, neighborhood condition, piece of understudies and readiness of the students, current framework and innovation support”.
Nageshwar Rao, Vice-Chancellor of the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), is going the committee on web-based learning.
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