University Grants Commission(UGC) has released a Draft National Higher Educational Qualification Framework (NHEQF).<\/span><\/p>\n It has been released as <\/span>part of a set of reforms that the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 envisages.<\/span><\/p>\n This draft framework is not intended to promote a uniform curriculum or national common syllabus.<\/span><\/p>\n Its purpose is to bring up\/elevate all HEIs to a common level of benchmarking to ensure that all institutions are providing quality education.<\/span><\/p>\n Awarding of Degrees<\/b>: The framework <\/span>envisages the award of certificates, diplomas and degrees based on what students completing a particular programme of study are expected to know, understand and be able to do at the end of their programme of study.<\/span><\/p>\n Parameters for Assessments:<\/b> It <\/span>has set up certain parameters of assessments for students in higher education institutions and divided it in levels 5 to 10 (Levels 1 to 4 cover the school education).<\/span><\/p>\n \u2013 Level 5 represents learning outcomes appropriate to the first year of the undergraduate programme of study.<\/span><\/p>\n \u2013 Level 10 represents learning outcomes with greater complexity appropriate to the doctoral-level programmes of study.<\/span><\/p>\n \u2013 At every level, the students will be assessed based on parameters, including knowledge and understanding of theory; cognitive and technical skills; application of knowledge and skills; decision-making abilities etc. Number of Credits required to clear different levels of Degrees: <\/b>The framework fixes the number of credits required to clear the different levels of the four-year undergraduate programme, master\u2019s degrees and doctoral degrees.<\/span><\/p>\n Those looking to exit the undergraduate programme with a certificate will require 40 credits; with a diploma after two years will need 80 credits; degree after three years will have a requirement of 120 credits; degree with honours\/research after four years with 160 credits.<\/span><\/p>\n One credit is equivalent to one hour of teaching (lecture or tutorial) or two hours of practical work\/fieldwork per week.<\/span><\/p>\n Source: <\/b>This post is based on the article<\/span> \u201cUGC releases draft National Higher Educational Qualification Framework\u201d <\/b>published in <\/span>Indian Express <\/b>on <\/span>3rd Feb 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What is the news? University Grants Commission(UGC) has released a Draft National Higher Educational Qualification Framework (NHEQF). What is the Draft National Higher Educational Qualification Framework (NHEQF)? It has been released as part of a set of reforms that the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 envisages. This draft framework is not intended to promote a… Continue reading UGC releases draft National Higher Educational Qualification Framework<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,9],"tags":[10500],"class_list":["post-166152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-indian-express","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}What is the Draft National Higher Educational Qualification Framework (NHEQF)?<\/b><\/h5>\n
What are the key features of the <\/b>Draft National Higher Educational Qualification Framework?<\/b><\/h5>\n
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