FAQs
“Academic Flexibility” is the provision for innovative and interchangeable curricular structures to enable creative combinations of Courses/Programmes in Disciplines of study leading to Degree/Diploma/PG Diploma/Certificate of Study offering multiple entry and multiple exit facilities in tune with National Education Policy-2020, while removing the rigid curricular boundaries and creating new possibilities of life-long learning.
- “Course” means one of the specified units which go to comprise a programme of study;
- “Credits” means the standard methodology of calculating one hour of theory/one hour of tutorial/ two hours of laboratory work. per week for a duration of a semester (13-15 weeks).
- “Credits” for internship should be one credit per one week subject to a maximum of six credits.
- ‘‘Credits” can be awarded by all the degree awarding institutions.
- “Credit accumulation” means the facility created by ABC in the ‘Academic Bank Account’ opened by students across the country in order to transfer and consolidate the ‘credits’ earned by them by undergoing “courses” in any of the eligible HEIs.
- “Credits recognition” would mean the credits earned through eligible/partnering HEIs and transferred directly to the ABC by the concerned HEI.
- “Credit redemption” means the process of commuting the accrued ‘credits’ in the ‘Academic Bank Account’ of the students maintained in ABC for the purpose of fulfilling the ‘credits requirements’ for the award of Degrees/Diplomas/Certificates etc., by the degree-awarding HEIs.
- “Credit-transfer” means the mechanism by which the eligible HEIs registered with ABC are able to receive or provide prescribed ‘credits’ to individual registered ABC account in adherence to the UGC credit norms for the ‘course/s’ registered by the desirous students in any eligible higher education institution within India
- “Programme”/“Programme of study” means a higher education programme pursued for a degree specified by the Commission under Section 22 (3) of the UGC Act;
- “Specified Higher Education Institutions” are the HEIs who are permitted to become a member of ABC.
- “Statutory/Regulatory Body” means a body so constituted by a Central Act or a State Government Act for setting and maintaining standards in the relevant areas of higher education;
- “Student” means a person admitted to and pursuing a specified credit- based course/programme of study in a higher education institution.
