Express News Service
NEW DELHI: The University Grants Commission (UGC) will soon launch a portal, which will help to effectively track and support the implementation of the National Education Policy (NEP), 2020 and its strategic initiatives across the country’s Higher Educational Institutions (HEIs).
Speaking with this newspaper, UGC chairman Prof M Jagadesh Kumar said the portal – UTSAH (Undertaking Transformative Strategies and Actions in Higher Education) – will also provide detailed information about UGC’s initiatives for qualitative reforms.
The portal is likely to be launched by the end of February, he said. “Information related to higher education has always been in demand by policymakers, students and researchers globally. Timely, reliable and authentic information is the backbone of effective and informed policy formulation for social and economic development,” Prof Kumar said.
“The data collected on the UTSAH Portal will be beneficial for policy-making within and outside the government,” he said. The portal has a user-friendly interface that will help HEIs to submit information regarding their initiatives, achievements and best practices. It will also help track outputs and outcomes across essential fields, he said.
It has been developed after consultations with various stakeholders, including institutions, universities, colleges, IITs, IIMs and others. The main aim of the portal will be to gather information from HEIs focused on ten major thrust areas for which key performance indicators and the activities targeted to achieve them have been identified.
One of the major areas is multidisciplinary and holistic education. Under this, the key performance indicator will be the adoption of the Academic Bank of Credits (ABC). This facility contains information on credits earned by individual students of HEIs as envisioned under NEP.
Other key indicators will be multiple entry and exit, multidisciplinary programmes and curricular and credit framework. According to the UGC chairman, the other major thrust areas are digital empowerment and online education; skill development and employability; research, innovation and entrepreneurship; capacity building of teachers for quality education; governance and autonomy; quality, ranking and accreditation; equitable and inclusive education; promotion of Indian languages and Indian knowledge systems and internationalisation of education.
NEW DELHI: The University Grants Commission (UGC) will soon launch a portal, which will help to effectively track and support the implementation of the National Education Policy (NEP), 2020 and its strategic initiatives across the country’s Higher Educational Institutions (HEIs).
Speaking with this newspaper, UGC chairman Prof M Jagadesh Kumar said the portal – UTSAH (Undertaking Transformative Strategies and Actions in Higher Education) – will also provide detailed information about UGC’s initiatives for qualitative reforms.
The portal is likely to be launched by the end of February, he said. “Information related to higher education has always been in demand by policymakers, students and researchers globally. Timely, reliable and authentic information is the backbone of effective and informed policy formulation for social and economic development,” Prof Kumar said.
“The data collected on the UTSAH Portal will be beneficial for policy-making within and outside the government,” he said. The portal has a user-friendly interface that will help HEIs to submit information regarding their initiatives, achievements and best practices. It will also help track outputs and outcomes across essential fields, he said.
It has been developed after consultations with various stakeholders, including institutions, universities, colleges, IITs, IIMs and others. The main aim of the portal will be to gather information from HEIs focused on ten major thrust areas for which key performance indicators and the activities targeted to achieve them have been identified.
One of the major areas is multidisciplinary and holistic education. Under this, the key performance indicator will be the adoption of the Academic Bank of Credits (ABC). This facility contains information on credits earned by individual students of HEIs as envisioned under NEP.
Other key indicators will be multiple entry and exit, multidisciplinary programmes and curricular and credit framework. According to the UGC chairman, the other major thrust areas are digital empowerment and online education; skill development and employability; research, innovation and entrepreneurship; capacity building of teachers for quality education; governance and autonomy; quality, ranking and accreditation; equitable and inclusive education; promotion of Indian languages and Indian knowledge systems and internationalisation of education.
