Academic session for fresher’s in universities from Nov 1

Dear students, the long vacations will be officially over for you, soon . The delayed academic sessions for freshers in universities and colleges will begin from November 1. The winter break this year, the summer vacation in 2021 and other holidays would be curtailed to compensate for the time lost.

All higher education institutions have been advised to teach six days a week to make up for lost learning hours. Classes for first-year students will start from November, and no new admissions will be allowed beyond November 30, according to the revised academic calendar approved by the University Grants Commission (UGC) this month.

“In view of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Commission has accepted the report of the committee and approved the UGC guidelines on the academic calendar for the First Year of Under-Graduate and Post-Graduate Students of the Universities for the Session 2020-21,” said a twitter by the Education ministry.

The UGC had first released an alternative academic calendar for higher education institutions on April 29, in which it had prescribed that universities conduct their final-year or terminal semester examination from July 1 to July 15 and declare the results at the end of the month.

Education Ministry twitted today, “To avoid financial hardship being faced by the parents due to lockdown and related factors, a full refund of fees will be made on account of all cancellation of admissions/ migration of students, up to November 30, 2020, for this very session as a special case.”
Universities and schools across the country have been closed since March 16 when the Centre announced a countrywide classroom shutdown as part of measures to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus