Karnataka has become the first state to launch the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020. Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan officially kicked off the program in Bengaluru through a virtual launch.

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Several changes were introduced at the university level. College students will have the freedom to study inter-disciplinary courses for their degree programmes after the launch. This implies a student can opt for subjects as diverse as math and history if those are his or her interests.

All colleges and universities in Karnataka will begin to offer interdisciplinary courses. The state also plans to launch a program where students enrolling for diploma programs will get to study abroad in a unique exchange program.

Guidelines on the admission process for the next academic year under the new policy will be released today. The admissions will be facilitated through the Unified University and College Management System (UUCMS). A revised curriculum, along the lines of NEP, will be ready in the first week of October.

Now, there is no not much of art separation between Arts and Science, and between curricular and extracurricular, and vocational studies. “We are trying to remove all this art-science separation. So whatever topic you are learning needs to be provided education, and as well as skill,” Said higher education minister Dr CN Ashwath Narayan.

A credit-based system of assessment will also kick in this academic year which will replace the end-semester exams. Universities have been told to revamp the evolution pattern, he added, calling this a “radical change that is student-centric.”

“Whatever a student is going to learn, that will be given to him as a credit for a particular subject for the particular year. If the student wants to drop or exit the course, they can and resume from where they left off and even transfer the credits from one institution to another institution, from one university to another university,” The minister said.

The state also launched a program where students of a three-year diploma could study for the first two years in Karnataka but study abroad for the third year of the course with an aim to make polytechnical colleges more employable.

Chief Miniter also announced to launch from Gulbarga. “So, the process is ready we are working in that direction, even the establishment of the primary and secondary education Council will be established by through an Act. So a lot of processes and systematic structures have been brought in place. And we’ll be taking this forward — on one side, it is the academic activity, on the other side is that governance and administrative reforms which will go on, ” Dr Narayana said.

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