Jaipur: The higher education department has started initiative to change the pattern of education in the state.
The state government had recently sent a letter to all the vice-chancellors to start choice based credit system in their campus.
In this process, students will get 80% marks on his/her academics and 20% on any other courses he had studied. Those courses can be related to studies or any skill development that will enhance their skill for the job market.
Sandesh Nayak, college education commissioner, said, “We want the current system to have some change so that it will be beneficial for students in future. The pandemic is a wake up call for us and we need to change the system now.”
He further said that recently college education department started skill development courses under massive open online Courses (MOOCs) under which various online courses were given to students. If further choice-based credit system is introduced in the universities, then points of joining these courses can also be made part of their evaluation.
Commenting on the choice based credit system, vice-chancellor of Dr B R Ambedkar Law University, Jaipur, Dev Swarup said that in the current scenario it is difficult to have this system in universities and colleges.
“In the higher education committee, we recently submitted a few recommendations to bring change in the system. First, was to introduce semester system in colleges and to remove the private student concept from the system. Semester system will organise the education with multiple examination without depending on just one examination.”
He further said that private students who just have to give examination without coming to college are also been negatively impacted with the promotion in pandemic.
“We can have choice-based credit system if we will have good faculty and infrastructure in the government colleges as most of the higher education institutes are lacking that. Once we are able to implement these changes and build our infrastructure on it, we can think about choice based credit system,” said Swaroop.
