UGC may additionally allow pursuing a couple of tiers concurrently

NEW DELHI: Students would possibly quickly pursue more than one degree concurrently from different universities or the same university, with the University Grants Commission (UGC) analyzing the idea’s feasibility. The UGC has installed a panel headed with the aid of its Vice-Chairman.

Bhushan Patwardhan will study the problem of pursuing diploma programs concurrently from equal colleges or unique universities via distance, online, or component-time modes. However, this is not the commission’s first analysis of the difficulty. The UGC set up a committee in 2012, and consultations have been hung on the same; however, in the long run, the concept becomes junk.

“The panel was set up the overdue final month and has already met as soon as. Now consultations are being held with special stakeholders to explore the feasibility of the concept,” a senior UGC professional instructed PTI.
The 2012 committee headed by the then Vice-Chancellor of Hyderabad University, Furqan Qamar, had endorsed that a pupil enrolled in a diploma program below normal mode may be allowed to pursue most of 1 additional diploma program simultaneously below open or distance way from the equal or a special university.

However, two-degree programs below ordinary mode might not simultaneously create logistic, administrative, and educational problems. A pupil pursuing a degree program below regular mode may be allowed to pursue a most of 1 certificate, degree, advanced diploma, PG diploma program simultaneously in normal or open and distance manner in the identical college or from different establishments,” the panel report stated.

According to UGC officers, “the fee had then sought comments of the statutory councils at the committee’s document, and the responses obtained no longer endorsed the idea of permitting students to pursue more than one diploma program simultaneously. Hence, the plan did not take off. It has now been decided to revisit the concept because a generation has brought in many modifications. The reliable said that the sizable majority of folks want to pursue specialized courses except for their everyday degree programs,” the reliable said.

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NEW DELHI: Headline indices Sensex and Nifty ended inside the terrible sector for a third consecutive session on Monday on losses in financial institutions, NBFC, and FMCG stocks. The marketplace has been witnessing a promoting spree after Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman clarified that the newly imposed income-tax surcharge on the better earnings bracket changed into here to stay. Uninspiring quarterly numbers, susceptible international cues, growing crude oil charges, a geopolitical flareup in West Asia, and the rupee’s weak point similarly deteriorated investor sentiment.

“The market entered a bearish segment as traders turned dealers because of concerns over the extension of monetary slowdown. At the same time, susceptible company earnings hurt the sentiment further. This correction has extended to large caps, which until now have been attracting FII inflows. Tax concerns and muted Q1 results will hold to impact,” said Vinod Nair, Head of Research at Geojit Financial Services.

The 30-percentage Sensex closed 306 points, or zero.80 consistent with cent, down at 38,031. Thirteen, with 14 stocks within the red. The Nifty50 ended with 82 factors, or zero.72 consistent with cent, down at eleven,337.15, with 27 shares up and 23 down. Finance, FMCG, financial institutions, and realty packs suffered sturdy losses on BSE, while steel, electricity, and oil & fuel indices logged healthful gains.