INDIA TO BOOST DISTANCE LEARNING

January 18, 2008

INDIA: PLEA TO BOOST DISTANCE LEARNING
India needs to expand its open and distance-learning system by a substantial amount if it is to hit government targets for increasing enrolment in higher education by 15 per cent by 2015. The claim was made in a letter from India’s National Knowledge Commission to the Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh. The commission also raised concerns about the quality of education provided by the current distance-learning system. Surabhi Banerjee, a member of the commission’s working group and vice-chancellor of Netaji Subhas Open University, Kolkata, told The Times of India: “We’re trying to give the system quality, which has been lacking so far. Now it all depends on its implementation.”

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