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The State authorities has formally rejected the University Grants Commission’s (UGC) projected Learning Outcome-Based Curriculum Framework (LOCF).
In a missive addressed to Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan and UGC Chairperson Vineet Joshi, Higher Education Minister R. Bindu said the draught successful its contiguous signifier would not beryllium implemented successful the State. She besides expressed superior concerns implicit the academic, structural, and ideological aspects of the projected curriculum.
The State’s argumentation is based connected a broad reappraisal conducted by an adept committee appointed by the authorities to measure the draught document. Based connected the committee’s findings, Dr. Bindu said the papers lacked world extent and failed to bespeak the societal and acquisition realities of the country.
“The draught program violates the autonomy of universities by prescribing syllabi, people structures and speechmaking lists. It goes beyond the law mandate of the UGC,” Dr. Bindu wrote successful her letter.
The draught introduces Western models done ideologically driven insertions, she said, adding that divisive contented nether the guise of Indian Knowledge Systems was besides present. Such elements lend to an outdated and academically unsound framework, Dr. Bindu stated.
Asserting that it undermines the goals of a critical, originative and pluralistic higher acquisition system, Dr. Bindu urged the UGC to retreat the draught and behaviour a cardinal reappraisal of the framework.
She emphasised the request for meaningful consultation with State governments, universities and world communities earlier finalising immoderate specified national-level curriculum.
Tasked by the State authorities to measure the draught curricula, the Kerala State Higher Education Council had constituted the adept committee chaired by economist Prabhat Patnaik and co-chaired by assembly vice-chairperson Rajan Gurukkal. The panel’s study was besides forwarded to some the Union Minister and the UGC chairperson for consideration.
