Higher education prospects of thousands of students in north Kerala districts are likely to be affected by the latest government order barring the University of Calicut from inviting applications for courses in open and distance learning and private registration modes.
On an average, around 40,000 to 50,000 students seek admissions, the highest in the State, to these courses a year. They include those who fail to get seats in aided and government colleges because of various reasons and others who cannot afford the high fees in self-financing arts and science colleges. With Plus Two results to be announced on Tuesday, a large number of students are likely to be in the grip of confusion.
The Higher Education department had said in a circular that the four major universities in the State would be able to conduct admissions only if the Sree Narayana Guru Open University did not get recognition from the University Grants Commission’s (UGC) Distance Education Bureau for its distance education courses.
