The Sree Narayana Open University (SNOU) will start admission procedures for distance education courses for the academic year 2022-23 as soon as the University Grants Commission (UGC) sanction was obtained, Minister for Higher Education R. Bindu said in the Assembly on Tuesday.
It was foreseeing this contingency that other universities were asked not to initiate admissions to long distance courses through private registration mode, she said.
Ms. Bindu was replying to a calling attention motion by T.V. Ibrahim, highlighting the predicament which has risen in the higher education sector following a circular issued by the Higher Education department that other universities may conduct admissions to distance education courses only if SNOU did not get UGC recognition for its distance education courses
