India, April 30 -- After the University Grants Commission (UGC) issued guidelines for the Apprenticeship Embedded Degree Programme (AEDP) in March this year, the state government recently issued a government resolution (GR) for implementing the same in the upcoming academic year of 2025-26.

This development comes a week after the state government approved the AEDP, which will soon be implemented in non-agricultural universities.

As per the GR, which was released on Friday, each university must enrol a minimum of 300 students in AEDP. It reads, "AEDP will involve a close coordination between university authorities, representatives of industries, skill development departments, business houses, sector skill councils, board of apprentice tr...