To align architectural education with the recently approved National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, the Council of Architecture (COA) has released the Minimum Standards of Architecture Education Regulations, 2020. 

As part of the regulations, the council has introduced the Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) system for architecture courses across the country. Earlier, universities and institutes followed either percentage or grade system. But the grades had to ultimately be converted in percentage format as the council only recognised percentage evaluation. 

“The CGPA system has been adopted by educational institutes across the globe and it will help streamline the evaluation process in architecture courses,” Habeeb Ahmed Khan, president of COA told the Education Times. 

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The council has also introduced a choice-based credit system for architecture courses. Khan says, “As the field is a simulation of other fields including engineering, arts, design and technology, the students must learn as per their interests independent of the semester courses.” 1

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• 1. In another major reform, the regulation allows private practise and research for faculty members associated with architecture programmes. Teacher-training has been made mandatory before joining the course and the pay scale to be followed will be as per government directive.

  Source: NDTV