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The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur is introducing honours and inter-departmental degrees, will allow "direct admission" to global Olympiad winners, and will broaden the scope of learning it offers to include Social-Sciences, Communication, Humanities, and Economics (SCHEME) as part of its revamped curriculum. For students who want to leave the programme in the middle, the institute also offers an exit degree. IIT Kanpur said in a statement on Tuesday that it has revamped its curriculum to align it with the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 and the recommendations of a review that began in 2018.

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According to a communique shared by the IIT Kanpur: "The revamped curriculum will introduce new degree options including the Honours degree and options of new inter-departmental degree programs. It will also extend the scope of learning to include Social-Sciences, Communication, Humanities, Economics, Management, and Environment (SCHEME). The Core Courses will be restructured to give greater flexibility to the core curriculum. Technology will drive teaching and pedagogy to take learning to the next level. Further, the program will also enable counting of designated online courses done by students on MOOC platforms to be counted for credits."

IIT Kanpur has also made the existing grading scheme more granular by introducing a "fine-grained mechanism" for assessing students' performance as it also aims to guide and counsel students in an ethically focused manner. According to the recommendations of the National Education Policy (2020), the revamped curriculum will introduce game-changing reforms in the rules governing the termination of undergraduate programmes with an exit degree due to poor student performance, according to an IIT Kanpur statement. The transformative curriculum is included in the Undergraduate Academic Review Committee Report 2020-21 (UGARC 2020-21) and is approved by the IIT Senate at its meeting on October 6-7, 2021.

Professor Abhay Karandikar, Director of IIT Kanpur told: “At IIT Kanpur we have always believed in supporting our students through a curriculum that not just enhances their skills but produces 21st century engineers and entrepreneurs who are agile and updated with the latest technological and academic innovations.” “The revamping of the existing curriculum, introduction of courses relevant to today’s changing world and the revised grading system is in continuation of our steps in this direction and in line with the recommendations of the National Education Policy (2020) of the Government. A key aspect of the revamp is much needed flexibility to the system enabling it to adapt to the changing academic landscape across the world. We are hopeful that these features will enable IIT Kanpur to be the preferred institute for its programs both nationally and internationally,” he added.

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