The University of Calicut is yet to respond to the Sreenarayana Guru Open University’s (SGOU) objections over the former conducting admissions to academic programmes in the distance education mode and accepting private registration of students.
SGOU Vice-Chancellor P.M. Mubarak Pasha had pointed out, in a letter on June 30, to Calicut University Vice-Chancellor M.K. Jayaraj that there was a conflict of interest “with the legal aura” of the SGOU in the latter offering courses through the distance learning mode.
This followed the Calicut University issuing a notification in June for admissions to courses in the open and distance learning mode. Among the 12 distance learning programmes notified by the university, nine courses – three undergraduate degree programmes and six postgraduate degree programmes – fall in the SGOU list. If they are removed, the Calicut University can run only B.A. (Political Science) and M.Sc. (Mathematics) and M.A. (Political Science) in the distance learning mode.
