Norm Tweak Widens Distance Learning Gap as UGC’s New Registration System Complicates Admissions
Basant Kumar Mohanty | 21 February 2025 | The Telegraph
Open and Distance Learning (ODL) courses, usually preferred by the disadvantaged groups, have seen a significant drop in admissions in July (2024) and January sessions after the recently introduced centralised registration system for candidates led to problems of data mismatch and cancellation of applications.
Last year, the University Grants Commission (UGC) made it mandatory for all candidates seeking distance education programmes to register with its Distance Education Bureau (DEB)…