Colleges to catch up with 4-year FYUG roadmap: Director Colleges

The Director Colleges, J&K, Tuesday said that the degree colleges have to catch up with the delayed varsity-driven roadmap for the implementation of the 4th year of the Four Year Undergraduate (FYUG) programme.

- Syed Rizwan Geelani

Addressing students during the inaugural ceremony of the week-long Faculty Development Programme (FDP) 'Emerging Research Trends in Science' organised by Government College for Women, M A Road, here, Director Colleges Prof Sheikh Aijaz Bashir said that the 4th year of the UG degree was slightly difficult.

"For a UG degree, we had three years of course, but now the fourth year demands an honours programme and a research programme. So there are two clear verticals defined in it," he said.

Bashir said that regarding research, he had been writing to the universities continuously to provide a roadmap for this, saying that the Higher Education Department was entitled to implement the scheme, while the university is entrusted to provide a roadmap.

"Unfortunately, things have not moved the way they should have moved. They are moving now, but they should have moved much earlier, and so we are also trying to catch up," he said.