Apart from the UUCMS having nine different modules, the state government revealed very little about this initiative which bears similarities with the NDEAR to be implemented nationally. In another materialisation of the National Education Policy released in 2020, the Karnataka government announced multiple educational initiatives at an event on August 23, two weeks after it issued an order implementing the NEP. One of these initiatives was the Unified University and College Management System (UUCMS). The NEP 2020 emphasised greater involvement of technology in education with the suggestion of creating a National Education Technology Forum which would formulate policies under the NEP. The central government also launched the National Digital Education Architecture (NDEAR) last month, along the same lines. The UUCMS seems like a state-level version of the NDEAR. The central government's replies to parliament questions in the monsoon session revealed that over 2.96 crore school students in India do not have access to digital devices, of which over 31 lakh are in Karnataka. The UUCMS does contain a module called Student Support but no further details have been provided in this regard. What is the UUCMS? On its website, the UUCMS claims it will "computerize all activities of Higher Education Institutions (HEIs)" and "centralize the data available on higher education from the grass-root level". These activities will include admissions and degree issuance under Undergraduate, Post-Graduate, and PhD courses as well as handling various HR and logistical functions of educational institutes. The Karnataka government does not elaborate further on the UUCMS; however,…
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NEP 2020: Karnataka government launches UUCMS portal to digitise higher education, centralise data
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