Model syllabus in colleges from new academic session
Sandeep Mishra | TNN | Mar 29, 2019, 04:06 ISTBhubaneswar: To enhance quality of higher education, the state’s higher education department has framed the model syllabus for undergraduate courses and asked the state-run universities and autonomous colleges to follow the new system from the forthcoming academic session.
The syllabus, which has been prepared on the basis of choice-based credit system (CBCS), will be implemented for arts, science and commerce streams besides curriculum has been designed for compulsory ability and skill enhancement courses at the institutions. The department has also issued a CBCS regulation to be followed by the institutions.
“The syllabus has been prepared in consultation with all the universities concerned and their boards of studies. The plan is to make the students ready for the competitive world. We have issued direction to vice-chancellors and principals to implement the same from the coming academic session,” department additional secretary Krupasindhu Mishra said.
He said the model undergraduate syllabus has been uploaded in the official website of the higher education department for information of heads of institutions. “The universities can put it in their respective board of studies for its adoption while the autonomous colleges will implement the same following due procedure,” Mishra said.
According to the new model syllabus, there will be a core course consisting of 14 papers aimed to cover the basics. There will be a discipline-specific elective course consisting of four papers. There will also be dissertation in elective course category.
Moreover, the students will also have to study ability enhancement compulsory courses in streams such as environmental science and MIL communication in any of the languages such as English, Odia, Hindi, Sanskrit, Urdu or Telugu. Honours students will also get the freedom to choose a skill-enhancement course in their undergraduate career.
The model syllabus also fixed the eligibility criteria for students to pursue the undergraduate course in the state-run institutions. Any student, who has passed senior secondary from any board recognised by Government of India and Odisha government will be eligible to get the admission. There will be no entrance examination. Students will be selected on first come first serve basis.
If students secure marks between 90 and 100, they will get ‘O’ grade, between 80 and 89 it will be ‘A+’grade, 70 to 79 will be ‘A’ grade, 60 to 69 is ‘B+’ grade, 50 to 59 will fetch ‘B’ grade, it is 45 to 49 for ‘C’ grade and ‘D’ grade is for 40 to 44. Below 40 will be F for failed and for absence and malpractice, it will be ‘AB’ and ‘M’ grades respectively.
The model syllabus covers subjects in arts like economics, education, geography, home science, law and philosophy, among others, while there is only one part for commerce and in case of science, the model syllabus covers a range of subjects, including anthropology, biotechnology and environmental science besides physics, chemistry and mathematics.
The choice-based credit system pattern syllabus was under consideration of the higher education department since 2015-16 academic session, but it is only after the formation of State Higher Education Council, the new system will be implemented from the coming academic session.
The syllabus, which has been prepared on the basis of choice-based credit system (CBCS), will be implemented for arts, science and commerce streams besides curriculum has been designed for compulsory ability and skill enhancement courses at the institutions. The department has also issued a CBCS regulation to be followed by the institutions.
“The syllabus has been prepared in consultation with all the universities concerned and their boards of studies. The plan is to make the students ready for the competitive world. We have issued direction to vice-chancellors and principals to implement the same from the coming academic session,” department additional secretary Krupasindhu Mishra said.
He said the model undergraduate syllabus has been uploaded in the official website of the higher education department for information of heads of institutions. “The universities can put it in their respective board of studies for its adoption while the autonomous colleges will implement the same following due procedure,” Mishra said.
According to the new model syllabus, there will be a core course consisting of 14 papers aimed to cover the basics. There will be a discipline-specific elective course consisting of four papers. There will also be dissertation in elective course category.
Moreover, the students will also have to study ability enhancement compulsory courses in streams such as environmental science and MIL communication in any of the languages such as English, Odia, Hindi, Sanskrit, Urdu or Telugu. Honours students will also get the freedom to choose a skill-enhancement course in their undergraduate career.
The model syllabus also fixed the eligibility criteria for students to pursue the undergraduate course in the state-run institutions. Any student, who has passed senior secondary from any board recognised by Government of India and Odisha government will be eligible to get the admission. There will be no entrance examination. Students will be selected on first come first serve basis.
If students secure marks between 90 and 100, they will get ‘O’ grade, between 80 and 89 it will be ‘A+’grade, 70 to 79 will be ‘A’ grade, 60 to 69 is ‘B+’ grade, 50 to 59 will fetch ‘B’ grade, it is 45 to 49 for ‘C’ grade and ‘D’ grade is for 40 to 44. Below 40 will be F for failed and for absence and malpractice, it will be ‘AB’ and ‘M’ grades respectively.
The model syllabus covers subjects in arts like economics, education, geography, home science, law and philosophy, among others, while there is only one part for commerce and in case of science, the model syllabus covers a range of subjects, including anthropology, biotechnology and environmental science besides physics, chemistry and mathematics.
The choice-based credit system pattern syllabus was under consideration of the higher education department since 2015-16 academic session, but it is only after the formation of State Higher Education Council, the new system will be implemented from the coming academic session.
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