Universities offering distance education courses will now open the window for fresh enrolments twice in an academic year — from January till February and from July till August — as higher education sector regulator UGC has laid down the norms in this regard.
Over 1.5 million students had enrolled for fresh undergraduate and post graduate courses through the distance learning mode in the University Grants Commission (UGC) recognised institutions in 2018, according to government officials.
“The UGC had recently put in place guidelines with regard to these courses which attract lakhs of aspirants. As a step further the commission has specified two windows during the academic year to streamline admission to such courses,” an official said.
The UGC has recognised 1,309 programmes offered by 81 universities for the Open and Distance Learning (ODL) mode.
Read more of this in a report by Amandeep Shukla published in Hindustan TImes...
