The draft white paper of the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) has envisaged a national level test to assess student learning outcomes after they graduate. The test would help in assessing if higher educational institutions enable students to “acquire the capacity for higher-order cognition” in all Bachelor degree programmes, irrespective of specialisation and future career tracks.
A set of national level online courses has also been proposed so that students acquire the capacity for higher-order cognition.
“Regardless of the specialisation and career paths, we expect all individuals with Bachelor’s degrees to have certain forms of understanding, skills, abilities, and habits of mind, thereby defining the concept of educatedness as distinct from degrees and certificates. Thus, the purpose of education guides the conceptualisation of educatedness. General Education would then be the curriculum that aims at educatedness,” the paper states.
