Career Oriented Courses in Universities and Colleges

Abstract

Globalisation of education and economy has led the University Grants Commission (UGC) to reorient and reshape its policies and programmes to make the current Indian Higher Education System more relevant and career-oriented with focus on quality and excellence. It is envisaged that professionally qualified graduates with a sound knowledge of their core disciplines and expertise in a concerned skill will have more openings in service, industry and self-employment sectors. Demand and scope for such professionally trained graduates are visible in the applied fields of almost all basic/core disciplines and faculties in the current changing global scenario and is likely to increase in the future. To meet this challenge, during the XII Plan, UGC would like to encourage incorporation of skill oriented and value added, addon courses in colleges/Universities to be opted by students as a parallel subdiscipline while pursuing their degree level education.