National Education Policy will come into effect from current academic year: Ashwath Narayan
BENGALURU:
Karnataka became the first state in India to issue an order on Saturday for the implementation of the National Education Policy-2020 with effect from the current academic year 2021-2022.
Higher Education Minister CN Ashwath Narayan, who has retained his portfolio under the new CM, made the announcement after a meeting with officials of the Department and the state’s Higher Education Council.
Kumar Nayak, Additional Chief Secretary (Higher Education), P Pradeep, Commissioner, Department of Collegiate Education, Prof Thimmegowda, vice-chairman, Karnataka Higher Education Council, and other senior officials were present.
#Karnataka leads in National Educational Policy implementation in the country.
— Dr. Ashwathnarayan C. N. (@drashwathcn) August 7, 2021
Our commitment to this is unwavering. On my first day at office in CM @BSBommai cabinet, I have issued an order to implement #NEP2020 in this academic year, 2021-22.@narendramodi @dpradhanbjp pic.twitter.com/kksRsgENcQ
The implementation will be done as per the guidelines of the NEP, Ashwath Narayan said.
The NEP guidelines:
• Students joining BA or BSc degree courses should opt for two subjects (Discipline Core) available in their respective colleges. At the start of the 3rd year of the course, they can opt for one subject as a major and another subject as a minor, or both as major subjects.
• In addition, they need to choose Kannada and one more language as language subjects. Besides, they need to choose Open Electives and Discipline Electives as per the curriculum structure. It has been directed to prepare a separate Kannada curriculum for those who have not studied Kannada in the PUC or 10+2 level, or for those whose mother tongue is not Kannada.
• Opting for subjects (Discipline Core) is not necessary for studying subject-based graduate courses such as B Com, BCA, BBA, BVA and BPA.
• If the student discontinues, for any reason, after completing the first year of graduation (National Skills Qualifications Framework Level 5) by obtaining the necessary credits, he/she shall be given a certificate.
• If the student discontinues, for any reason, after completing the second year of graduation (National Skills Qualifications Framework Level 6) by obtaining the necessary credits, he/she shall be given a diploma certificate.
• If the student discontinues, for any reason, after completing the 3rd year of graduation (National Skills Qualifications Framework Level 7) by obtaining the necessary credits, he/she shall be awarded a Bachelor’s degree.
• If the 4th year of the course (National Skills Qualifications Framework Level 8) is available in the college in which the student studied earlier, the study along with the chosen optional subjects can be continued to get awarded an Honours degree. If research projects are part of the course, such students will be eligible to directly go for Ph.D studies.
• If there is no Honours degree in the college in which the student had studied earlier, the student can join any other college where an Honours degree is taught.
• It is not mandatory for colleges to have an Honours degree.
• Students can get a maximum of 40% of the expected credits through official online courses.
• The student can get a degree from the university of his/her choice by getting a minimum of 50% credits from the respective university.
• Any student should have fulfilled the necessary pre-requisite while choosing the subjects of Discipline Core, Open Electives and Discipline Electives. (For example, while selecting Physics or Mathematics, one should have studied those subjects in PUC or 10+2 grade. If not, they should have studied official Prerequisite Courses in the respective subjects.)
• Students can discontinue only after completion of even semesters and accordingly they can rejoin only for odd semesters.
• Eligible colleges can have integrated courses of 5 years in addition to degrees of 3 years and honours degrees of 4 years. If any student discontinues after a 3-year degree he/she will be awarded a degree and after 4 years an Honours degree will be awarded.
• Post-graduation will be of one year or two years. Those who have obtained an Honours degree will be eligible to study one year P-G and those who have got a degree for 3 years of study will be eligible to join a 2-year P-G.
• If a student studying in the 2nd year of P-G discontinues after getting prescribed credits set for the 1st year, he/she can be awarded a Post-Graduate diploma.
