Mohammed Younus
Students of higher education institutions of the State can now pursue different courses simultaneously and carry credits to another institution. Though this system is already being implemented in certain courses at post-graduate level in some universities, the Centre wants it to be extended at undergraduate level from next academic year.
Human Resource Ministry had recently announced that the higher education will be made flexible with the implementation of Choice-Based Credit System (CBCS) across all the universities in the country. To this end, the Centre had asked States to implement the scheme from next academic year. It also asked the education ministers of all States to constitute committees to study the challenges and hurdles in the implementation.
This system will allow a student of under graduation to attend one more or extra course of his/her choice apart from that s/he is engaged in. This is a student-friendly measure that allows greater flexibility and helps them to earn credits from the extra course which can be transferred if they move to another institution. In the present conventional system, both marks and grades are used. The effectiveness of the same scheme at PG level, however, has not been assessed yet it is implemented in some State universities of Telangana, including Osmania University.
Moving ahead with the scheme, the Centre wants the same to be followed in the UG programmes. In this case, a student of Science can now choose a certain subject of his/her choice from any other stream. Telangana Higher Education Council chairman T Papi Reddy said that the intention of this scheme was to enhance the multi-faceted learning among students at higher levels. He said that this would give students the exposure of various topics during the course time.
He said, “This is already being implemented in some universities and after thorough assessment a framework would be formed for implementing it in all the universities in the State.” State Education Minister G Jagadish Reddy also conducted a meeting with experts and higher education council officials recently. He said that the Centre’s move was intended to strengthen the higher education in the country with flexible methods.
Salient points
- Student can select a wide range of subjects apart from basic course offered by university.
- Facilitates inter-disciplinary approach.
- Credits obtained by students are movable from one university to other.
- Credit is a kind of weightage given to the hours of learning in the prescribed syllabus, which is in a segmented form. Normally one credit is allocated to 15 hours of learning.
- In each of the courses, credits will be assigned on the basis of the number of lectures/tutorials/laboratory work and other forms of learning required for completing the course contents in maximum 18 week schedule.
Students of higher education institutions of the State can now pursue different courses simultaneously and carry credits to another institution. Though this system is already being implemented in certain courses at post-graduate level in some universities, the Centre wants it to be extended at undergraduate level from next academic year.
Human Resource Ministry had recently announced that the higher education will be made flexible with the implementation of Choice-Based Credit System (CBCS) across all the universities in the country. To this end, the Centre had asked States to implement the scheme from next academic year. It also asked the education ministers of all States to constitute committees to study the challenges and hurdles in the implementation.This system will allow a student of under graduation to attend one more or extra course of his/her choice apart from that s/he is engaged in. This is a student-friendly measure that allows greater flexibility and helps them to earn credits from the extra course which can be transferred if they move to another institution. In the present conventional system, both marks and grades are used. The effectiveness of the same scheme at PG level, however, has not been assessed yet it is implemented in some State universities of Telangana, including Osmania University.
Moving ahead with the scheme, the Centre wants the same to be followed in the UG programmes. In this case, a student of Science can now choose a certain subject of his/her choice from any other stream. Telangana Higher Education Council chairman T Papi Reddy said that the intention of this scheme was to enhance the multi-faceted learning among students at higher levels. He said that this would give students the exposure of various topics during the course time.
He said, “This is already being implemented in some universities and after thorough assessment a framework would be formed for implementing it in all the universities in the State.” State Education Minister G Jagadish Reddy also conducted a meeting with experts and higher education council officials recently. He said that the Centre’s move was intended to strengthen the higher education in the country with flexible methods.
Salient points
- Student can select a wide range of subjects apart from basic course offered by university.
- Facilitates inter-disciplinary approach.
- Credits obtained by students are movable from one university to other.
- Credit is a kind of weightage given to the hours of learning in the prescribed syllabus, which is in a segmented form. Normally one credit is allocated to 15 hours of learning.
- In each of the courses, credits will be assigned on the basis of the number of lectures/tutorials/laboratory work and other forms of learning required for completing the course contents in maximum 18 week schedule.
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