The answer is YES! The Academic Bank of Credits (ABC) is a system by University Grants Commission that allows universities to store the credits earned by students digitally. It is a portal wherein each student can access their academic credits and documents.
ABC enables students to gather credits for courses they have successfully finished and apply those credits towards future degrees or educational programmes. This method allows for greater flexibility in choosing a student's educational path and shortens the time and cost required to earn a degree. To upload and access the records, both the University and the student must be registered on the NAD DigiLocker portal and have their ABC ID.
Pre-eminent in the education domain, JG University, also a UGC approved university has adopted all the digital practices of UGC and attempts to smoothen the learning process for the students. JG University is also registered on the UGC National Academic Depository (NAD) DigiLocker and all the current students enrolled at the university are now registered at ABC. The portal of NAD ABC provides accessibility to both university and the students.
The Academic Bank of Credits is important to students as it provides them with greater flexibility, portability of credits, flexible learning options, easy accessibility of academic records and recognizes prior learning experiences. Whereas for universities, the Academic Bank of Credits can help provide a more workable, inclusive, and collaborative approach to education. Digitisation of academic records will benefit in the long run and the data stored once will be for a lifetime with obtainability from any point in time.
The most important highlight of the discussion around Academic Bank of Credit is the ease and choice it gives to the students to change their college/ university or subject field. This is viable with the credits earned and stored digitally. The transfer of credit can now easily be monitored via the ABC portal.
All universities across the nation will soon be on board the ABC portal and an incredible digital change will be witnessed by all the stakeholders of the education system of India.