Autonomous schools in Maharashtra will begin providing the four-year commencement programs prescribed underneath the Nationwide Training Coverage (NEP) 2020, from the upcoming educational 12 months, whereas the opposite schools must look ahead to a 12 months for a particular roadmap by their respective affiliating universities.
The Maharashtra greater and technical training minister Chandrakant Patil made the announcement on Friday.
Autonomous schools, college departments and institutes having PG programs will lead the NEP implementation within the state from the tutorial 12 months 2023-24.
“Autonomous schools have the freedom to determine their lecturers. They don’t require universities to develop a plan for a similar. They will start the four-year diploma programs from the upcoming educational 12 months. For different schools, nonetheless, universities will put together an in depth plan-of-action,” mentioned Patil addressing media on the Sahyadri visitor home.
He added that the colleges have been given a deadline of September 2023 to prepared the roadmap. It additional needs to be finalized by the year-end taking into account all of the confusion confronted by college students and professors together with particulars on the right track contents, flexibility of educational credit amongst all. And within the first week of January 2024, remaining particulars must be declared for all schools to arrange for providing the four-year diploma course from the subsequent educational 12 months.
Patil continued, “Presently there’s confusion amongst college students in addition to professors, relating to implementation of NEP, particularly the 4-year diploma programs. This may solely intensify if schools which require assist from universities to arrange programs, determine constructions and different particulars are requested to supply the programs from the upcoming educational 12 months. Contemplating that the colleges require time for a similar, a brand new timeline has been ready after session with all universities.”
Patil shared {that a} marathon of conferences was held prior to now few days with vice-chancellors (VC) of all state universities and others from the upper and technical training division following which these choices are taken.
There are a complete of 144 autonomous schools throughout Maharashtra and 400-450 institutes providing PG programs, together with college departments.
An official from the upper training division defined, “There’s ample time for PG programs to start out as their admissions are executed later, leaving sufficient time to transform them as per NEP. Nevertheless, changing three-year diploma programs into four-year tenure would require extra work. Autonomous schools can do that on their very own and PG institutes nonetheless have time. Thus, NEP implementation will likely be restricted to those institutes for the upcoming educational 12 months.”
There are round 36 extra schools who will likely be buying standing of autonomous institutes in a couple of months. Nevertheless, contemplating that will probably be their first 12 months of autonomous standing, it has but to be determined whether or not they are going to be a part of these allowed to start out NEP.
