The University Grants Commission is now going to provide the equivalency certificate given by Tribhuvan University to the students who have studied higher education abroad.

The higher education regulatory body Commission is empowered with credit transfer and quality assurance and accreditation (QAA) along with equivalence. The commission got this right from the amendment made in the University Grants Commission Act 2050 through the amendment of some Nepal Acts.

The revised Act has been approved by President Ramchandra Paudel and published in the Gazette. In the amendment, the work, duties, and rights of the Commission have been added to the point of "determining the equivalence of educational degrees provided by foreign universities or educational institutions of the Sosarah". Chairman of the Commission, Devraj Adhikari said that the work of equivalence will now be done by the Commission. 

Equivalency was being distributed by the Curriculum Development Center under the Office of the Rector of the University. It is mentioned in the amendment that the said work will be done by the Commission only from 1 July 2083. Until then, those who have taken the equivalence from the University do not have to take it again. He said that after the amendment of the Act, the commission's jurisdiction has increased.

The Act was amended by the Parliament on the commission's proposal. We will start the work of determining equivalence by creating a guideline with standards,'' he said. Even if you have completed your studies from other universities in Nepal for government work, there is a mandatory situation where you have to take equivalence from Terti.

When some universities do not meet the standards, the government bodies ask for equivalence from the university. The official said that those matters will be decided when the guidelines are made. 

The Act also provides that the details of the academic degree that has been determined to be equivalent and the details of the university or educational institution that has awarded such a degree should be updated every 6 months and made public. There was also a complaint that the university was arbitrarily providing equivalence in some cases. In the report of the Higher Education Commission 2075, experts recommended that the equivalence work being done by the University should be given to the commission.

After the amendment of the Act, the commission has also received clear legal recognition for the work of credit transfer and quality assurance and accreditation (QAA). Even though it had done these things before, the commission did not have a clear legal basis. Quality Assurance and Accreditation (QAA) of Universities has added to the work, duties and powers of the Commission to make necessary arrangements by making guidelines regarding credit transfer between universities.

According to the Commission, a committee has been formed under the coordination of Professor Gobind Nepal to work on credit transfer. Interuniversity credit is becoming a national standard for transformers. It was not clearly practiced in Nepal till now. Now it has been legally recognized," said the presiding officer. He said that a bank will also be established for credit transfer.

"If the student does not complete his studies in the middle, the credit bank does the job of counting his attendance and giving him a chance to complete his studies for a certain period of time," he said. Although some universities are working on credit transfer, there is a lack of uniformity and national standards.

Last February, after the death of Prakriti Lamsal, a student at the Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT) in Odisha, India, and the mistreatment of Nepali students, there was a discussion about credit transfer in Nepali universities. After the incident, the universities asked the students who returned to Nepal to enroll with credit transfer. Even though universities including Trivi, Kathmandu, Purvanchal requested for credit transfer, there was a lack of national standards and legal complications.

Similarly, the Commission has stated that the Act has made clear provisions to implement QAA to maintain quality in higher education. The presiding officer said that it will be implemented. Out of 1400 campuses across the country, only 137 have received QAA recognition so far.

The academic and physical infrastructure required to operate the campus has been specified in QAA standards. In which the standards of physical infrastructure including classes, faculty, subject-wise teachers, number of students, laboratory, library and other necessary educational materials, land, land and buildings have been specified.

The commission decides to give or not to give QAA based on the indicators of physical, educational and other infrastructure of the educational institution. The education policy also mentions that higher education provider educational institutions should obtain QAA. Tribhuvan University has also introduced a policy of adding programs, subjects, etc. to campuses that have received QAA. There are one thousand campuses associated with Trivika. 

Last November, the Ministry of Education directed the foreign relations colleges operating in Nepal to get mandatory QAA from the University Grants Commission. It was concluded that the mandatory provision of QAA in the guidelines on the operation of educational institutions operated in relation to foreign universities and educational institutions is not applicable.

A study committee consisting of experts said that out of 59 colleges opened in connection with foreign universities, only 10 have received QAA. It has been pointed out that only the universities and colleges affiliated to those 10 colleges are in the top 1000 in the world ranking. In the