9/10/2022 9:42:14 PM

DIGITAL VARSITY MAY OFFER COURSES FROM JANUARY: UGC CHAIRMAN

SOURCE: HINDUSTAN TIMES

The UGC has also decided to revise its existing online education guidelines to sync them with the Digital University and make them more flexible for higher education institutions, University Grants Commission (UGC) chairman M Jagadesh Kumar said.

The National Digital University, proposed in this year’s Union Budget, is likely to offer some courses from January and fully function from June-July next year, University Grants Commission (UGC) chairman M Jagadesh Kumar said on Tuesday. The UGC has also decided to revise its existing online education guidelines to sync them with the Digital University and make them more flexible for higher education institutions, he added.On February 1, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman had proposed to set up a digital university to provide education that will be built on a “hub and spoke model”.The “hub and spoke model” refers to a distribution method in which a centralised “hub” exists. Everything either originates in the hub or is sent to the hub for distribution to consumers. From the hub, goods travel outward to smaller locations owned by the company, called spokes, for further processing and distribution. In this case, the university will act as the “hub” and several top higher education institutions in and outside the country will act as its “spokes”, Kumar said.