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UGC revises rules for PhD admission, 40% seats to be filled in entrance test apart from NET/JRF
New test to be conducted by universities/colleges to complement net/jrf. policy document lays out syllabus, qualifying marks, guidelines for areas of research, supervisors’ duties..
New Delhi: The University Grants Commission (UGC) has revised the rules for admission to PhD programmes by including an entrance test for admission, apart from qualification through the existing National Eligibility Test (NET), ThePrint has learnt. The idea is to “reorient” PhD programmes across the country, officials said.
NET/JRF (Junior Research Fellowship), conducted by the National Testing Agency (NTA), is the exam that tests a student’s eligibility to enrol for a PhD in Indian universities. But now, 60 per cent of the total seats of the academic year for a PhD programme shall be filled by NET/JRF qualified students. The remaining 40 per cent shall be filled through the university/common entrance test.
The draft of the revised regulations — ‘UGC (Minimum Standards and Procedure for Award of Ph.D. Degree) Regulations, 2022’ — was approved in a commission meeting held on 10 March, UGC chairman M. Jagadesh Kumar confirmed to ThePrint. The document has been accessed by ThePrint.
The rules will soon be put on the official UGC website and made public. Based on the public feedback, the commission will finalise the regulations and send it to the Union Ministry of Education for approval.
For those who have qualified through NET/JRF, the selection will be based on interview/viva-voce.
For candidates who have passed the entrance test, the selection shall be evaluated in the ratio 70 (written test) to 30 (interview).
“Merit list for both shall be separately published. In case of unfilled seats in either of the categories, candidates from other categories can be requisitioned to fill up the vacant slots,” reads the policy document.
Also read: Lateral entry in teaching? UGC working to bring in experts without PhD or NET qualification
Syllabus, qualifying marks, selection of research area
The syllabus of the entrance test shall consist of questions that test research/analytical/ comprehension/quantitative aptitude of a candidate, the document reads. It will be conducted by individual universities and colleges that have been permitted to do so.
The university concerned shall devise its own admission procedure, along with eligibility conditions, to ensure that most of the seats under these categories are filled.
“Qualifying marks in the entrance test will be 50 per cent, provided that a relaxation of 5 per cent of marks (from 50 per cent to 45 per cent) shall be allowed for candidates belonging to SC/ST/OBC (Non-creamy layers)/Differently-abled category in the entrance examination conducted by the universities,” the document states.
“An interview/viva-voce has to be organised by the university/college concerned wherein the candidates are required to discuss their research interest/area through a presentation before a duly constituted departmental research committee,” it adds.
The interview/viva-voce shall also consider whether the candidate possesses the competence for the proposed research, if the research work can be suitably undertaken at the institution/college and whether the research topic is relevant.
The document also says that “selection of the area of research will get a special focus”.
“Research on socially relevant/locally need-based/ nationally important/globally significant/create value to the society or in cutting edge areas or contribute to new/additional knowledge in the areas of emerging concerns worldwide will be encouraged,” the policy document adds.
Obligations of supervisors
The revised policy document also has new sections on a supervisor’s obligations. The rules include that the supervisor should guide PhD candidates on whether the PhD project is feasible within the allotted time, explore the possibility that the project could lead to new results on a sufficiently high level to form the basis for a PhD thesis at an international level, and if there is enough time for the PhD student to have a realistic opportunity of submitting the PhD thesis on time.
“A good PhD programme requires that from the start of the PhD education there is a good working relationship between the student and the supervisor, in which the PhD student and the supervisor can reach an agreement on the demands and expectations placed on each other,” the document states.
It adds that the supervisor is also responsible for being in regular contact with the PhD student, serving as a sounding board for the research project, advising the student about relevant courses and conferences and assisting the student in establishing contacts with relevant national and international centers of research.
(Edited by Saikat Niyogi)
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New UGC guidelines make it difficult to pursue PhD
HYDERABAD: New University Grants Commission regulations make it impossible to pursue PhD for students who fail to qualify National Eligibility Test (NET), State Eligibility Test (SET) or State Level Eligibility Test (SLET) in most of the universities.
The University Grants Commission on Friday uploaded on its website the University Grants Commission (Minimum Standards and Procedure for Awards of M.Phil/ Ph.D Degree) first amendment, regulations 2017 for which public and stakeholders can provide feedback till June 15.
The new regulations make it impossible for students who do not qualify NET, SET or SLET to pursue PhD at universities which fall under Category-III of the UGC (Categorisation of Universities for Grant of Graded Autonomy) Regulations, 2017. Such students could apply for PhD till now by clearing the university level PhD entrance test. However, the new regulation mandates that only those candidates would be eligible for enrolling to PhD course into Category-III institutions who have qualified the NET, SET or SLET examinations.
Feedback on new rules can be provided till June 15 UGC also put up on its website new regulations on establishment and functioning of deemed-to-be-universities, replacing the regulations which it had made for the same last year, on which feedback can be provided till June 15. The UGC (institutions Deemed to be Universities) Regulations, 2017 differs from its 2016 variant in some ways. One of the most noticeable changes is removal of two clauses governing eligibility criteria for an institution to be declared as deemed-to-be-university.
The 2016 version mandates that faculty in Humanities, Social Sciences and Languages shall have at least 10 publications and faculty of Sciences, Medicine and Engineering shall have at least 15 publications per year, in refereed journals listed by UGC and having an impact factor. However, in the 2017 regulations this clause has been removed.
The 2016 version also had a clause which mandated that an institute should have proven record of securing merit-based extramural research funding from various public or private agencies for being recognized as a deemed to be university.
Even this has been removed from the 2017 version of regulations. The new regulations has some provisions making the work of applying for deemed to be university status to UGC easier for such institutions which are recognized as Category-I by the UGC. UGC also put up another regulation for feedback, the University Grants Commission (Promotion and Maintenance of Standards of Academic Collaboration between Indian and Foreign Educational lnstitutions) Regulations, 2017.
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