Indore: All the three year undergraduate courses of Devi Ahilya Vishwavidyalaya (DAVV) University Teaching Departments (UTD) are now four year honours programmes from the new academic session.
However, not all affiliated colleges will be able to run the four year colleges.
In accordance with the National Education Policy (NEP), all the UG courses are now four year honour courses with the fourth year based on research methodology.
As the research methodology is an extremely significant module in the curriculum of fourth year UG programmes, only those higher educational institutions (HEIs) besides the varsity, that run PhD research centres will be permitted to offer four-year degree programmes.
Besides DAVV, less than 50 per cent of affiliated colleges of the varsity can offer four year degrees in the next academic session.
To have a research centre, the higher educational centres need to run postgraduate courses too. As the process for the research centres has been ongoing, the status of the number of centres will change, DAVV’s deputy registrar of establishment and academics, RK Baghel told TOI.
“Government has not cleared the policy for the fourth year students. When the students will get in the third year, the situation will be clear as those colleges which already have postgraduate courses might also be given the permission for the fourth year,” he added.
Considering that the courses are of multiple entry and exits, those students who exit after three years will get a plain degree. Only the students who secure a Cumulative Grade Points Average (CGPA) of 7.5 and above in the first three years of the UG course will be able to obtain a bachelor’s degree with Honours/Research by fourth year.
