new delhi sep 4 ians efforts are being made to create an unified higher education system in the countryunder this all courses will be made available in higher education institutions of the country and the colleges with 3000 or more students will become degreegranting multidisciplinary autonomous institutionswith these changes on one hand students will get more options than before while on the other the education institutions will get more autonomyefforts are being made to build a consensus to implement these changes for this all the higher education institutions across the country have been contactednot just the higher education institutions but also the state governments will be partners in thisthe biggest advantage of these changes will be that students apart from their main subject will also be able to take any other subject or full time course as per their interest in their own institutethese new changes were envisaged by the university grant commission ugc earlier but now concrete steps are being taken in this regardrecently the ugc issued a guideline in this regard according to the guideline students of higher education institutions will be able to take admission in two courses at a timefurther orientation and counselling of students will be done for this in every institute associated with higher educationall universities and state governments across the country will play an important role in implementing the new systemugc chairman professor m jagadesh kumar told ians that at present all universities and state governments have been asked to frame rules in this regard for their institutionsaccording to the ugc chairman the unified higher education system would include the professional higher education sector vocational education and holistic education it has also been suggested to open necessary departments for multidisciplinary subjects under the unified higher education systemthe essential departments that have been suggested to be opened in higher education institutions include various languages literature music philosophy indology art dance theatre education mathematics statistics pure and applied science sociology economics sports translation and topics such as interpretationunder the new changes universities and single domain educational institutions such as higher education institutions offering low engineering education or medical studies will also now have to adopt this multidisciplinary modeafter these new changes there will be three types of higher education institutions in the country research universities teaching universities and autonomous colleges if there are more than 3000 students then the college will be able to give degrees on their ownugc says that there are domain specific standalone colleges and universities in india even in multidisciplinary higher education institutions the disciplinary limits are so rigid that a very few opportunities are explored to learn different subjectsinternationally there is a rapidly growing culture of establishing and maintaining a multidisciplinary university maximising productivity with a greater focus on research and development innovation and incubation therefore it is relevant for the higher education system to phase out standalone and domainspecific institutions to form clusters and multidisciplinary higher education institutions instead of the existing regimeat the same time a new