New degree on table Bachelor of Science for humanities, commerce-Education News

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Keeping in line with global norms and the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, the country’s higher education regulator is poised to introduce a new range of college degree names,

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including a Bachelor of Science (BS) degree in disciplines like arts, humanities, management and commerce. Currently, the University Grants Commission (

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) permits universities to offer a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in arts, humanities and social sciences, and the Bachelor of Science (more commonly abbreviated in India as BSc) degrees is typically for science subjects. However, with the NEP 2020 advocating a restructuring of undergraduate and postgraduate degrees, a committee set up by the UGC to review degree nomenclatures has recommended that the new four-year undergraduate honours (or honours with research) programme, irrespective of the discipline, can also be offered as a Bachelor of Science (BS) degree. Similarly, universities can adopt the Master of Science (MS) nomenclature for both the one and two-year postgraduate programmes, even for disciplines such as arts, humanities, management, and commerce.

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