(1)
Consistent
with the duty of the University to take all such steps as it may deem fit for
the promotion of the Open University and distance education systems in the
educational pattern of the country and for the coordination and determination
of standards of teaching, evaluation & research in such systems; and in
pursuance of the objects of the University to encourage greater flexibility,
diversity, accessibility, mobility and innovation in education at the
University level by making full use of the latest scientific knowledge and new
educational technology, and to further cooperation between the existing
Universities; it is considered necessary and expedient to establish a Distance
Education Council as an authority of the University under Section 16 of the
Act.
“It shall be the duty of the
University to take all such steps as it may deem fit for the promotion of the
open university and distance education systems and for the determination of
standards of teaching, evaluation and research in such systems, and for the
purpose of performing this function, the University shall have such powers,
including the power to allocate and disburse grants ………… as may be
specified by the Statutes”
(2)
There
shall be a Distance Education Council (DEC) which shall ……… be
responsible for the promotion and coordination of the open university and
distance education system, and for the determination of its standards.