UGC- CEC

 

                     UNIVERSITY GRANTS COMMISION

 

 

The University Grants Commission of India is a statutory body set up by the Department of Higher Education, Ministry of Education, Government of India in accordance to the UGC Act 1956 and is charged with coordination, determination and maintenance of standards of higher education. It provides recognition to universities in India, and disbursements of funds to such recognized universities and colleges. The headquarters are in New Delhi, and it has six regional centres in Pune, Bhopal, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Guwahati and Bangalore. A proposal to replace it with another new regulatory body called HECI is under consideration by the Government of India. The UGC provides doctoral scholarships to all those who clear JRF in the National Eligibility Test. On an average, each year ₹725 crore is spent on doctoral and post-doctoral fellowships by the commission.

Objectives: Coordination, determination and maintenance of standards of university education. It provides recognition to universities in India, and disburses funds to such recognized universities and college.

 

HISTORY OF UGC

 

 In 1944, with the Sargent Report, the government made the first endeavour to have an education system. It was the report of the Central Advisory Board of Education on Post-War Educational Development in India.

 The University Grants Committee was constituted in 1945 through various top suggestions that enforced the responsibility to monitor the three renowned Central Universities of Aligarh, Banaras and Delhi.

 The committee got the responsibility to supervise all the universities of that era in 1947.

 The University Education Commission was formed in 1948, whose chairman was Dr Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan. The commission recommended reforming the current University Grants Committee into University Grants Commission India like the UK.

 Maulana Abul Kalam Azad (former Minister of Education) launched the University Grants Commission on December 28, 1953

 In November 1956, UGC (University Grants Commission) was officially established as a statutory body of the Government of India via ‘University Grants Commission Act, 1956’ of the Parliament. The purpose was to monitor the coordination, determination and maintenance of standards of university education in our country.

 

FUNCTIONS OF UGC

 

1. It fosters and coordinates university education across the country
2. It makes and strengthens rules on minimum standards of education.
3. It maintains standards for examinations such as ICAR NET, UGC NET & CSIR UGC NET
4. It evaluates growth in the areas of college and university education.
5. It enables grants to universities and colleges.
6. It remains in the connection between the Union and State Governments and institutions of higher education.
7. It recommends necessary methods to Central and State governments to make positive changes in university Education.

 

 

 

 

CONSTORTIUM FOR EDUCATIONAL COMMUNICATION

The Consortium for Educational Communication popularly known as CEC is one of the Inter University Centres set up by the University Grants Commission. It has been established with the goal of addressing the needs of Higher Education through the use of powerful medium of Television

Realizing the potential and power of television to act as means of Educational Knowledge dissemination, UGC started the Countrywide Classroom Programmes in the year 1984. For production of educational programmes, initially Media Centres were set up at 6 Universities. Subsequently CEC was setup in 1993 as a nodal agency to coordinate, guide & facilitate such educational programme production through its Media Centres. Today 21 Media Centres work towards achieving this goal under the umbrella of CEC.

Objectives

• Close coordination, facilitation, overall guidance and direction towards the activities of the Media Centres set up by the UGC in various universities throughout the country
• Dissemination of educational programmes through broadcast as well as non-broadcast modes
• Production of educational programmes (Audio/Visual and Web-Based) and related support material further setting up of appropriate facilities for such production
• Research activities related to optimizing the effectiveness of such programmes
• Providing a forum for the active involvement of academic and other scholars in the creation of appropriate educational programmes
• Studying, promoting and experimenting with new technology that will increase the reach and/or effectiveness of educational communication.

CEC’s approach has been to develop the highest quality content for learners. Each subject has coordinators, experts in their own subjects, who have mapped the entire 3/4 year UG syllabus and further identified and utilized the services of the domain experts to deliver the best content possible. To make learning an engaging process, each e-content module is divided into four quadrants comprising of Text Resources, Visual Resources, Web Resources and Self-Assessment Resources. The transcription (text) of the video presented by an instructor is also available for download in e-book form. The content has also undergone a comprehensive two-step peer review process to make it free of any errors.

 

SWAYAM

CEC MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses), offered on Government of India’s SWAYAM platform, is a mode of learning where a student can virtually attend digital higher education courses, which are developed and taught by eminent subject experts. Through SWAYAM, students can access quality enriched educational resources, participate in discussion forums, and earn academic grades by taking tests.

CEC MOOCs are based on UGC Model Curriculum and Choice Based Credit System (CBCS). Each CEC MOOC spans a duration of 8-12 weeks approximately engaging students through video lectures, reading material, assessment components, discussion forums, e-mails and video conferencing. CEC MOOCs enrich the learning experience by using audio-video and multi-media, peer learning and state of the art pedagogy/technology. These structured and credit-bearing courses for higher education are available online for anyone, anytime and anywhere.

SWAYAM PRABHA DTH Channels

CEC is the national coordinator for non-technology undergraduate and postgraduate programs for 11 SWAYAM PRABHA DTH Channels that use GSAT-15 transponders to telecast high-quality educational programmes round the clock. 

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