Students can soon opt for fully online degree courses
A NUMBER OF PRIVATE UNIVERSITIES OFFER ONLINE DEGREES BUT NOT MANY STUDENTS OPT FOR THEM AS THEY ARE NOT RECOGNISED BY THE UGC
NEWDELHI:
Students and working professionals will soon be able to obtain a degree online
and it will be recognised by higher education regulator, the University Grants
Commission.
The
human resource development ministry has decided to allow universities to offer
such degrees and is drafting rules, official sources told HT.
Once
the rules are in place, institutes will be able to offer online degrees in all
fields, except engineering, medicine, dental, pharmacy, nursing, architecture
and physiotherapy.
At
present, the commission does not recognise any course offered solely through
the online mode.
A
student can get a degree by enrolling in a university and attending classes or
through a distance-learning module.
From
this year, the government has allowed universities to offer 20% of their course
material through the Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) platform called
Swayam.
But
if a student gets a degree through any online course, it’s not recognised.
A
number of private universities offer online degrees but not many students opt
for them as they are not recognised by the UGC.
The
ministry has now started preparing draft regulations for online programmes that
will allow universities and higher educational institutes to offer degrees by
conducting exams online; students will not have to attend classes physically.
The
draft came up for discussion before the UGC and the HRD ministry recently.
Source | Hindustan Times | 16 June
2017
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