Central University of Punjab faculty participated in inaugural ceremony of launch of draft NCrF for Public Consultation
Kanwar Inder Singh/ royalpatiala.in
Union Minister of Education and Minister of Skill Development & Entrepreneurship, Dharmendra Pradhan, launched draft of National Credit Framework (NCrF) for public consultation. The Ministry of Education developed the NCrF to enable the integration of academic and vocational domains to ensure flexibility and mobility between the two streams of learning.
The Central University of Punjab, Bathinda (CUPB) fraternity under the leadership of Vice-Chancellor Prof. Raghavendra P. Tiwari attended the inaugural event on the launch of the National Credit Framework for Public Consultation on Wednesday through online mode.
NCrF would provide numerous options for further progression of students and inter-mingling of school and higher education with vocational education and experiential learning. This will also enable students who have dropped out of mainstream education to re-enter the education ecosystem.
During the programme, Dharmendra Pradhan launched NCrF in the presence of MoS, Education, Annpurna Devi; MoS, Skill Development & Entrepreneurship, Electronics & IT, Rajeev Chandrasekhar; Anita Karwal; Secretary, Higher Education; Sanjay Murthy; Secretary, Skill Development & Entrepreneurship, Atul Kumar Tiwari; Chairman, NCVET; Dr. Nirmaljeet Singh Kalsi and senior officials of the Education and Skill Development Ministry.
Speaking on the occasion, Pradhan stated that the National Credit Framework is a next generation, multidimensional instrument under the NEP to empower students and youth. We are dedicating NCrF to ‘Jan-paramarsh’ to make it more dynamic. Pradhan further said that the National Credit Framework is an umbrella framework for skilling, re-skilling, up-skilling, accreditation and evaluation encompassing our people in educational & skilling institutions and workforce. He also mentioned that NCrF also supports educational acceleration for students with gifted learning abilities and Recognition of Prior Learning for the workforce that has acquired knowledge and skills informally through traditional family inheritance, work experience or other methods.
Vice-Chancellor Prof. Raghavendra P. Tiwari stated that the launch of draft NCrF is a welcoming initiative of the Ministry of Education as it values knowledge gained in the indigenous family system and aims to develop a dynamic instrument to integrate the credits earned through school education, higher education and vocational and skill education. He emphasized that the NCrF will prove to be beneficial to all stakeholders, as the objective of this framework is to provide life-long learning opportunities to students; fostering stronger collaboration between institutions; assisting the government to increase the enrolment of students; and to create a multi/ cross-sectoral skilled pool of employable youth for industries.
Central University of Punjab faculty participated in inaugural ceremony of launch of draft NCrF for Public Consultation. “Central University of Punjab will proudly host the draft of NCrF on University Website for public consultation. I appeal to the entire CUPB fraternity and citizens of India to actively participate in the Jan-Paramarsh campaign to make this more NCrF draft more dynamic”, said Prof. R.P. Tiwari, VC, CUP
October 21,2022
