A useless and corrupt Distance Education Council (DEC) dissolved but is UGC really capable

Hi,

Through the circular issued by University Grants Commission on 28th May 2013, The Distance Education Council stands desolved.
This means from now onwards there is not any body regulating distance education in India.
Through my various blogpost and exposing universities selling degree in India, I expressed that DEC should stand desolve.

The UGC circular says that through ministry of HRD circular now UGC is vested with the monitoring of the quality of distance education therefore any institute should not start enrolling any new study centre.

The act of UGC is highly unprofessional, misguiding, creating confusion and haphazard.

I repeatedly told that only UGC should regulate distance education and it should not grant approval to any institute who are not a deemed university (central, state. private or deemed) and it must regulate certificate and diploma programmes too.

Now, UGC's this action create following question:

1. What will happen to all the institutes to whom DEC has given recognition?
2. Should students take admission to any universities offering distance learning course?
3. Why UGC did not prepare a guideline/ directives for distance education and then desolved the Distance Education Council?
4. What will happen to universities selling degrees through distance education like Sikkim Manipal, EIILM, Assam Down Town, CMJ University, Mahatma Gandhi University Shillong, ICFAI University, Shobhit University, Vinayak Mission University, C V Raman University and many others? UGC has self could not regulate higher education how it will be able to regulate distance education which is a big degree scam in India?

Please refer following link
http://www.ugc.ac.in/pdfnews/9149400_ODLProgrammesCourses.PDF


My Advice
1. Do not take admission in distance learning programme of any private deemed universities and private universities (list can be viewed from www.ugc.ac.in)
2. Always prefer a central university (Pondicherry, University of Hyderabad, IGNOU, University of Delhi, Allahabad University etc.) for pursuing distance learning courses.
3. If a central university is not available, then opt for state open universities. You can find the list of real open universities from:
http://speakhr.blogspot.in/2013/01/career-question-and-answer-about.html
4. If you do not find course of your choice and preferring for a private sector job, then opt for state government university. I have started compiling list and so far completed for Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh and KArnataka. all are available at http://simplygovind.blogspot.com

5. Wait for further UGC guideline and do not get panicked. I have compiled list of fake institute and the universities having problems. They are:
http://simplygovind.blogspot.in/2013/05/cmj-degree-scam-exposed-and-i-was-right.html

Before taking admission, please carefully read the points, spread the message and ask your query here.

What will be the outcome from UGC
As I have always predicted rightly about AICTE, CMJ, MGU Shillong and others and things happened exactly like that, I feel UGC will come with following points:

1. A non university programme will not get recognition (like SCDL, Welingkar, Balaji, IMT, NMIMS)
2. all the universities surrounded by controversies will not get approval from UGC to run programmes (like CMJ, MGU Shillong, PTU, SMU, Shobhit and other deemed and private universities)
3. Universities will ask strictly adhere to jurisdiction and should not offer porgramme beyond the jurisdiction mentioned in the Act.
4. Only Study centre run self by the university (no franchisee or partner system) will be allowed.
5. Private and deemed universities will not be allowed to offer any programmes other than approved for full time campus programme.
6. Approval from necessary body will be applicable before granting permission to start distance learning.
7. It will take at least 6 months to 1 year to come with new set of regulations which will be managed by corrupt and inefficient UGC people.