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Updated: April 25, 2020 8:40:39 am
Universities have been closed since March 16.
The closure of COVID-19 has officially delayed the 2020-21 academic year, with a government-appointed committee recommending that the traditional start of higher education in mid-July be postponed until September.
Universities and schools across the country have been closed since March 16, when the Union government announced a closure of classrooms across the country as one of the measures to contain the outbreak.
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The seven-member committee, created by the University Grants Commission (UGC) to deliberate on exam-related issues and the academic calendar after the classroom closes, presented its report on Friday.
Suggestion on how long the delay
A delay in the new academic session was expected since none of the entrance tests will be done on time. However, for the first time now, there is an idea of how many months late students start.
In addition to the two-month delay in the start of the new academic session, the panel also recommended that end-of-year or end-of-semester exams that failed on time be taken in July.
Vice Chancellor of Central Haryana University, R C Kuhad, led the panel. A C Pandey, director of the Interuniversity Accelerator Center; Aditya Shastri, Vice Chancellor of Banasthali Vidyapeeth; and Raj Kumar, head of Panjab University, are among its other members.
The UGC will frame the guidelines for college exams and the academic calendar based on the committee report. “The guidelines will not be binding on higher education institutions, but will set the outside time limit by which the government expects them to start their new academic year,” said a source, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
The recommendation of this committee, if the UGC accepts it, would mean that the Union government would have to approach the Supreme Court to seek an extension of the latest date to complete admissions to medical programs (August 31) and technical requests ( August 15) as engineering These deadlines are mandatory by the higher court and therefore the need for your permission before being tampered with.
Another committee created by the UGC to make recommendations on online education has advised against requiring universities to take an online exam on a mandatory basis, given the “diversity, local environment, student composition and student readiness, infrastructure current and technological support. “
Nageshwar Rao, vice chancellor of the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), heads the online learning committee.
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