UGC debars NMIMS from offering distance finding out, on-line packages

The University Grant Commission (UGC) has debarred the Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS), Maharashtra, from offering open and distance finding out (ODL) and on-line programmes for the tutorial lessons of January-February 2023, July-August 2023 and January-February 2024.

UGC secretary Manish R Joshi in an announcement said that NMIMS had not adhered to the UGC guidelines and was in gross violations with regard to the functioning of the Centre for Internal Quality Assurance (CIQA), prime quality of self-learning supplies and e-Learning Material (e-LM), the nomenclature of the Centre for Distance and Online Learning. According to the assertion from UGC launched on Tuesday, the Commission has taken a essential view on the above violations and “decided in its 566th meeting held on February 23, 2023, to debar/ban/withhold the Higher Education Institution (HIE) from offering ODL and online programme for January-February 2023, July-August 2023 and January-February 2024 academic sessions even as entitled HIEI and/or Category-I HEI”.

The UGC assertion moreover added that the HEI may be allowed to run or provide ODL and on-line packages for the tutorial session from July-August 2024, solely pursuant to inspection or onsite go to by UGC and after buying compulsory approvals from UGC.

Therefore, he said throughout the assertion that most individuals is usually recommended to not take admission in any course of NMIMS, Maharashtra, through open and distance finding out mode and on-line mode for January-February 2023, July-August 2023 and January-February 2024.

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