John J. Kennedy | UGC’s Curricular Framework Is Not Reform, It’s Really A Regressive Step

The draft framework, and the state-level debates it has already triggered, lay bare a troubling pattern. Courses across disciplines are being retrofitted with content that privileges Hindu mythology and religious practices, even in subjects long grounded in empirical reasoning and critical analysis

The University Grants Commission’s draft Learning Outcomes-based Curriculum Framework (LOCF) is more than just another round of bureaucratic tinkering with syllabuses. It marks a worrying departure for Indian higher education that threatens to unravel the very principles of secularism, democracy and the scientific temper that form the core of our constitutional vision. What is being proposed under the guise of reform is not simply a change of textbooks or topics, but a deeper attempt to shift t