The Mysuru-based Karnataka State Open University (KSOU), the State’s only Open University, has now got the exclusive right of running courses under open distance learning (ODL) mode with the passage of the Karnataka State Universities (Amendment) Bill, 2020 in the Legislative Assembly.This means the conventional universities in the State that were offering the correspondence courses all these years have to discontinue them. The KSOU hopes that the move is expected to expand its reach and attract more students within its jurisdiction.The KSOU had taken a strong exception to the conventional universities offering ODL courses and sought the government’s intervention of giving it the sole right of running distance education programmes in the State. Early this year, the State Cabinet had taken the decision in KSOU’s favour with the intention of helping the university expand its student base besides providing exclusive self-learning materials to the students.Since inception more than two decades ago, the KSOU had been seeking the right on the ODL courses when the conventional universities, including the University of Mysore, started offering distance education courses and argued with the Department of Higher Education for the sole rights on ODL programmes considering the purpose of its establishment.The KSOU had even… Read full this story
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