The University Grants Commission (UGC) has ready draft tips for ‘Research Internship’ with school members and researchers at greater training and analysis establishments on the strains of National Education Policy (NEP 2020). According to the fee, the analysis internship could be of two sorts, that features internship to boost employability of a person pupil, and internship to develop analysis aptitude of a person pupil.
The draft says that the newly launched course construction within the NEP 2020 envisages the mixing of analysis part in diploma programmes, and particularly for the four-year diploma programme with bachelor’s diploma (analysis) has the fourth 12 months focussed on growing analysis competencies in college students.
“This calls for developing a system of offering research internships to undergraduate students with defined levels of competencies required for pursuing research. The framework would specify how the HEIs can support the interns as a provider or an organizer, and how a research organization or research center or laboratory in industry can support research internships as providers,” the fee mentioned.
“The 3-year degree and 4-year degree programme (research) will be operating strictly adhering with NEP specifications. Based on the higher education qualification level descriptors for Level-8, some of the competencies with research orientation should be attained by the students by studying the courses under the research ability enhancement courses (RAEC) and by undertaking the research internship project,” it additional added.
The fee additional knowledgeable that every undergraduate pupil may additionally full the primary analysis internship of 10 weeks period after 1st 12 months and second analysis internship of 10 weeks period after 2nd 12 months of graduate diploma programme. The pupil who has to go for a 4-year diploma programme with analysis can be required to finish analysis means enhancement programs (REAC) throughout seventh semester and analysis undertaking work or dissertation throughout seventh and eighth semester.
According to the rule, the internships of 8-10 weeks of 10 credit, after 2nd or 4th semester, can be obligatory for the scholars desirous of exiting with a certificates or diploma, respectively. Students who would proceed thereafter could endure optionally available analysis internships after 2nd or 4th semester, to boost their analysis capabilities, by participating as interns in HEI or analysis institute or industrial R and D labs.
With inputs from PTI.
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