3 year UG courses won’t be discontinued till 4-year fully implemented: UGC chief-Education News

Three-year undergraduate (UG) courses will not be discontinued till the four-year programme is fully implemented, and under the new pattern, graduates can directly join Ph.D programmes, University Grants Commission Chairman M Jagadesh Kumar said.

The new credit and curriculum framework for undergraduate (UG) courses was announced earlier this week and it defines Honours degree courses as a four-year programme. However, Kumar clarified that varsities can choose between the three and four year programmes. “It is left to the universities,” he said in an interview with PTI on Wednesday. He was asked whether it is mandatory for universities to migrate to the four pattern for Honours degrees.

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