NHEQF

21/07/202415/07/2024 by Manoj Kumar

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NHEQF-2023 by GOVERNMENT OF INDIA FOR CREDIT TRANSFER

NHEQF-National Higher Education Qualifications Framework

The National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 (hereafter referred to as NEP or the policy) envisages a new and forward-looking vision for India’s higher education system. It recognizes that higher education plays an extremely important role in promoting human as well as societal well-being and in developing India as envisioned in its Constitution – a democratic, just, socially conscious, cultured, and humane nation upholding liberty, equality, fraternity, and justice for all. The NEP 2020 notes that “higher education significantly contributes towards sustainable livelihoods and economic development of the nation” and “as India moves towards becoming a knowledge economy and society, more and more young Indians are likely to aspire for higher education.”

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Forward By Chairman OF UGC

FOREWORD

The National Education Policy (NEP) announced in 2020 marks a shift towards student centric approaches. Multidisciplinary education, multiple entry and exit system, integration with vocational education, and ensuring mobility between streams, and institutions, are some of the reforms envisioned in the NEP 2020. Classification of qualifications according to learning outcomes is central to many of these reforms. “Qualifications Framework,” which provides for arranging the qualifications based on learning outcomes, is a method practiced worldwide to facilitate comparability and transparency. The formulation of the National Higher Education Qualifications Framework (NHEQF), accordingly, is a key recommendation of the NEP 2020 to move towards developing a nationally accepted and internationally comparable and acceptable qualifications framework.

The UGC constituted an expert committee to formulate NHEQF to enable prospective students, parents, higher education providers, and other stakeholders to understand the nature and level of the expected learning outcomes and competencies associated with higher education qualifications. With much pleasure, I present the National Higher Education Qualifications Framework to higher educational institutions for adoption.

I take this opportunity to thank the Chairman of the Expert Committee, Prof. V. S. Chauhan, and the members for drafting the NHEQF. I also thank the committee headed by Dr. N.S. Kalsi for integrating the levels of NHEQF with the National Credit Framework (NCrF). The contributions made by the officers from UGC are also acknowledged.

(Prof. M. Jagadesh Kumar)

Chairman UGC