“The UGC will revise National Eligibility Test (NET) syllabus, candidates will get adequate time earlier than implementation,” Jagadesh Kumar stated, including that the University Grants Commission will type an knowledgeable panel for the train.

UGC to revise Nationwide Eligibility

Why will UGC revise NET syllabus?

The University Grants Commission had last initiated the process to update the syllabi of UGC-Nationwide Eligibility Check (UGC-NET) topics in 2017. “Nonetheless, after launching the National Education Policy (NEP) in 2020, there have been appreciable developments in greater schooling to impart multidisciplinary curricula and holistic education,” Kumar was quoted by PTI as saying.

Subsequently,  the fee, in its assembly earlier this month, “determined that an train to replace the syllabi of the topics of University Grants Commission-NET could also be undertaken”, Kumar knowledgeable on Tuesday. “The UGC will form an expert committee and undertake this train,” he stated.

The University Grants Commission chairman added that candidates can be given adequate time earlier than this new syllabus is launched in UGC-NET so that the changeover happens easily.

The National Testing Agency (NTA) conducts the University Grants Commission-NET for Junior Analysis Fellowship (JRF). The University Grants Commission-NET is held twice yearly, often in June and December, in 83 topics.

It’s an eligibility check for the appointment of assistant professors within the topics of Humanities and Social Sciences, together with Indian and a few international languages, in addition to in sure science topics.

In the meantime, the University Grants Commission is a statutory Organisation of the Authorities of India that’s answerable for the coordination, dedication and upkeep of requirements of instructing, examination and analysis in college schooling. It got here into existence in 1953.