UGC okays uniform academic calendar LIFE will soon become easier for students migrating from one college to another or from another university. The University Grants Commission (UGC) has approved a uniform academic calendar for all universities across the country. This would mean that results of all courses will be declared before June and classes for first year students shall commence by the first week of August. The uniform calendar requires every university to ensure that the first year classes for courses begin no later than the first week of August and for students of second year onwards, by no later than the third week of July. This academic calendar will not be applicable for professional courses. The calendar, based on the report of an expert committee comprising M Anandakrishnan, former vice chancellor, Anna University, Chennai; SN Hegde, former vice chancellor, Mysore University and Dayanand Dongaonkar, secretary general, Association of Indian Universities. A flexibility of two weeks may be followed for professional courses in commencement of classes for students of second year and later keeping in view the requirement of project work, summer schools and internships in these programmes. UGC approved the calendar on February 26 and the new regulations have been sent for publication in the Gazette of India to come into force from their date of publication in the official gazette. Source: Economic Times Dated 06/04/2007 http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Repository/ml.asp?Ref=RVRNLzIwMDcvMDQvMDYjQXIwMDcwMw==&Mode=HTML&Locale=english-skin-custom Best regards Naikal ____________________________________________________________________________________ Sucker-punch spam with award-winning protection. Try the free Yahoo! Mail Beta. http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/mailbeta/features_spam.html -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.