ET Explains: All you need to know about the National Credit Framework

New Delhi: India has developed a credit system, the National Credit Framework (NCrF), which will align the education and skilling landscape by allowing students and the youth to gain skills while pursuing their education and vice-versa with greater ease..

The National Credit Framework, jointly developed by a high-level government committee, is the single meta framework for assignment and integration of credits earned from elementary, school, higher, and vocational education and training..

A first- of-its-kind initiative which gives equal recognition to curricular and vocational education, NCrF allows candidates to earn credits, accumulate and transfer them for the purpose of equivalence, enabling multiple entry and exits into the skilling and education ecosystem...

Under NCrF, the credit levels are assigned based on the cumulative numbers of years of learning, subject to attaining defined learning outcomes determined by assessment..

Even the NCrF credits for two courses or qualifications can be added to each other and accumulated in the Academic Bank of Credit (ABC) if these are earned in the same assessment band, subject to the guidelines of the respective regulators...

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