Select universities soon to offer non-technical courses online

However, the scheme will face several challenges one being the apprehension that this will hamper the quality of education

The union government on Tuesday announced its decision to allow some institution to offer an online course to strengthen the gross enrolment ratio of the country.

Union Minister for Human Resource Development, Prakash Javdekar, while chairing the 65th Central Advisory Board of Education, announced that the government is working out regulations to allow certain universities to offer online distance learning courses.

The courses, however, will be non-technical in nature which means that one will not be able to pursue engineering or medical
courses via this mode.

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