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July 18, 2020
India's University Grants Commission updates the Press on the Latest Position on Terminal Semester(s)/Final Year Examinations by the Universities.
New Delhi, India. July 18, 2020 — University Grants Commission (UGC), India, has updated the Press on the latest position on Terminal Semester(s)/Final Year Examinations by the Universities.
The office of the Secretary, UGC, has provided the Press with the following status report:
• Terminal Semester(s)/Final Year Examinations by the Universities.
Examinations are an integral part of the education system and measure students’ learning, knowledge, skills, and other competencies. The performance in tests contributes to merit, lifelong credibility, wider global acceptability for admissions, scholarships, awards, placements, and better prospects.
A large number of best universities across the world, including the US, UK, Canada, Germany, Australia, Singapore, Hong Kong, and other countries, have conducted or are conducting examinations by giving various options such as Online/Offline/Blended or other alternative forms of tests.
To safeguard the more considerable interest of the students related to their academic and career progression globally, the UGC issued Guidelines on Examinations and Academic Calendar on April 29, 2020, mentioning that for the students of Terminal Semester(s)/Final Year Examinations may be conducted between July 1-15, 2020.
Because of emerging COVID-19 pandemic situation, it wasn’t easy to hold the examinations in July 2020, therefore, as per the directions of Ministry of Home, Ministry of Human Resources Development, and the report of the Expert Committee, UGC issued Revised Guidelines for Examination and Academic Calendar on July 6, 2020.
Accordingly, the Universities were required to chart out a plan for completion of the terminal semester/final year examinations by the end of September 2020 in offline (pen & paper)/online/blended (online + offline) mode following the prescribed protocols/guidelines related to COVID-19 pandemic.
UGC had told the Universities that they are not to put any student to any inconvenience/ disadvantage. Therefore, in case a student of the final semester/final year is unable to be present in the University’s examination for any reason, he/she may be allowed to appear in special tests for the relevant course(s)/paper(s) conducted as and when feasible.
UGC, through its letter of July 8, 2020, also communicated the Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for Conduct of Examinations as suggested by the Ministry of Human Resources Development.
Recently, universities were approached to inform the status of the conduct of the examination. Out of 945 Universities (as per the list maintained by UGC till 01-06-2020), the responses were obtained from 755 Universities (120 Deemed Universities, 274 Private Universities, 40 Central Universities, and 321 State Universities). UGC is gathering related information from the remaining Universities.
Out of the 755 Universities, 560 Universities have either conducted the examination or are planning to do so. Details are as follows:
(i) 194 have already conducted tests (online/offline);
(ii) 366 are planning to conduct examinations (on-line/off-line/blended mode) in August/September.
Also, the first batch of the 27 newly established Private Universities is yet to become eligible for the final examination.
Source: University Grants Commission
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August 6, 2020.
UPDATE FROM UGC
The University Grants Commission (UGC) is organizing a Conclave on Transformational Reforms in Higher Education on August 7 (Friday), 2020, from 10.00 AM to 04.00 PM in virtual mode. The Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi, would deliver the Inaugural Address.
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August 10, 2020.
UPDATE FROM UGC
“If exams aren’t conducted, students can’t get a degree. That’s the law.” — UGC.
Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, appearing for the University Grants Commission (UGC) in the Supreme Court on Monday, said students must continue to prepare for the exams. Mehta added, “If exams aren’t conducted, students can’t get a degree. That’s the law.”
Solicitor General Mehta questioned “how can states cancel exams and expect UGC to confer degree” when the UGC “is the only body to confer degrees.”
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