The central government had earlier proposed to make the NCERT an institute of national importance on the back burner. The NCERT is now looking forward to another tag; i.e deemed to be university. The EC is the highest decision-making body of NCERT and is chaired by Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan.
NCERT applies to UGC for 'deemed University' status
The National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) has applied to the University Grants Commission (UGC) for the deemed university status under the de novo category. The matter has been listed for discussion during a meeting of the Executive Committee (EC) scheduled to be held today.
The central government had earlier proposed to make the NCERT an institute of national importance on the back burner. The NCERT is now looking forward to another tag; i.e deemed to be university. The EC is the highest decision-making body of NCERT and is chaired by Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan.
The proposal, however, has been objected to by the faculty members within the NCERT and one of them has also reached out to the director against it. Assistant Professor Abhay Kumar, who is also an elected member of NCERT’s establishment committee, has opposed the idea on the ground that the deemed university status will erode NCERT’s autonomy.
“By deciding to grant Deemed to be University status to NCERT, all we are trying to do is surrender our academic autonomy to the UGC,” he wrote in his letter to the director. “Just as the UGC is the academic authority for higher education, NCERT is the academic authority for school education. Deemed to be University status will severely erode this authority,” he said.
As per the proposal on the agenda of the EC meeting, the Deemed-to-be University status will allow NCERT to offer its own graduate, post-graduate and doctoral degrees and have autonomy in terms of introduction of programmes, course structure, conducting examinations and management, among others.
At present, the graduate and post-graduate courses offered by NCERT’s Regional Institute of Education (REI) are affiliated with local universities like Barkatullah University, Bhopal, M D S University, Ajmer, University of Mysuru, Utkal University, Bhubaneshwar and North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong.
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