Tag : NAHEP

Vijay Garg Research (ICAR) along with the National Agricultural Higher Education Project (NAHEP) and the World Bank, is working to transform the curriculum in Indian agricultural universities. Planning is in place to uplift the institutes lacking infrastructure by providing them state-of-the-art language labs and a blended-learning platform. Despite the ambitious plans, sustaining the pace of transformation and the continuity of modernisation could be challenging.  The ICAR is also creating a Learning Management System (LMS) to allow students to pursue their education from remote places. With the World Bank, ICAR issued the Delhi Declaration on ‘Modernisation of Agricultural Education System’ highlighting the need to incorporate digital resources and tools for effective and accessible teaching and learning in Agriculture. “To meet the requirements of the students as per NEP 2020, we have to set up mechanism for blended learning through the best teachers in our agricultural universities,” deputy director general, Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) . The blended learning system will be available not only to the students but also to farmers and graduates of other disciplines who wish to undertake vocational courses in agriculture,  Revising curricula NAHEP is operational since 2018 and has been extended till March 2024. Under this project, 54 universities were provided support and reformative measures were intruduced. “To support this, Institutional Development Plan (IDP) focused on undergraduate programmes. Centre of Advance Agricultural Science and Technology (CAST), supported the opening of 16 centres of excellence for PG and PhD programmes and the third component is Innovation Grant (IG) for research and development.  ...