DL in India

I'm trying to think of a way to make a joke with SHIATS that doesn't violate the TOS

SHIATS: SHIATS distance course violates norms, debarred | Goa News - Times of India

 

Looks like the university violated jurisdiction by opening study centers outside it's State.

 

I've been trying, ever since I first saw the school on the UGC/DEB approved list. It occurred to me, however, that it's a darn good thing the school included Agriculture programs! :shock:

J.

 

Patna University DL "derecognized"

Patna varsity distance education courses stand derecognised | Patna News - Times of India

 

No PhD through DL says UGC. Elameno

Don’t go for PhD through ODL mode, UGC tells candidates | Aurangabad News - Times of India

 

If you've been waiting for the UGC to lighten up you're going to be disappointed

UGC notifies open, distance learning rules for universities | education$higher-studies | Hindustan Times

 

Good Things:
- 20% of the courses can be taken from online MOOCs from a government-sponored program (https://swayam.gov.in/)

Bad Things:
- Professiona Degrees (Engineering, Medicine, Dentistry, Architecture, Physiotheraphy etc) still can not be offered through DL. Can understand Medicine and related, but Engineering? There are schools in US and elsewhere that offer Engineering degrees through DL.

 

It is disappointing that India does not want to lead on this. There are millions of Indian descendants scattered around the world who will like to make the connection to the motherland. Education may just be the ideal vehicle. Many of their ancestors were taken from India by the u.k as indentured slaves.

 

Are you sure? A large number of Indians, born and raised in India prefer to get their education, or their children's, elsewhere. There are many, many Indian students in the college where I'm sitting right now. So many, they may actually have become a majority, I'm not sure. India now has a middle class of more than 200 million and it seems more and more of that class can afford to send their offspring to Canada or elsewhere - and here, they pay roughly two-and-a half times the domestic tuition rate.

I think more Indians are trying to sever their connection to India, rather than re-establish it. I'm sure they have their reasons.

J.

 

same story, different source

https://www.telegraphindia.com/1170629/jsp/nation/story_159260.jsp

and then there's this

https://scroll.in/article/841813/staff-crunch-teachers-say-new-distance-learning-rules-are-impossible-to-implement

 

" Some of the regulations betray the University Grants Commission’s cluelessness about distance learning."
It is so disconcerting how true this quote is about the UGC.

 

But on a serious note...



Why are Indian women wearing cow masks? - BBC News

 

The author gives a brief history of Indian higher education and let's just say that he's less than complimentary

https://www.fairobserver.com/region/central_south_asia/indian-institute-technology-gandhinagar-india-asian-world-news-latest-78798/