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Regulations pertaining to Credits, Academic Programmes and Award of Degrees:

(xii) list of the ‘Learner Support Centres’ along with the number of students who
shall appear at any examination centre and details of the Information and
Communication Technology facilities available for conduct of examination in a
fair and transparent manner;

(xiii) list of the ‘Examination Centres’ along with the number of students in each centre; and
(xiv) period of the admission process along with the academic session and dates of the
term end examinations.
8. Quality Assurance—
(1) A Higher Educational Institution offering programme(s) in Open and Distance learning
mode shall, take the following steps, namely :-
(i) establish a Centre for Internal Quality Assurance exclusively for programmes in
the Open and Distance Learning mode within one year from the coming into force
of these regulations;
(ii) follow the Quality Assurance Guidelines on learning materials in multiple media,
human resources, curriculum and pedagogy, as specified by the Commission
in Annexure VII or by any other agency authorised by it for prescribing such
guidelines, and shall post its quality assurance mechanism on the website;
(iii) take adequate measures for training and capacity building of its teaching and
administrative staff and counselors at regular intervals;
(iv) shall ensure that the quality of programmes of study offered through Open and
Distance Learning mode are maintained at par with standards obtaining in the
conventional mode of class-room teaching as provided by the Commission or the
appropriate statutory authority;

(v) shall award only such degrees as specified under section 22 of the Act, and
permitted in the Order of recognition under clause (i) of sub-regulation (4) of
regulation 3. However, the Higher Educational Institutions may continue to offer
Certificate or Diploma or Post Graduate Diploma programmes subject to the
condition that all the Certificate or Diploma or Post Graduate Diploma programmes
are duly approved by the statutory authorities or bodies of the respective Higher
Educational Institutions and the delivery mechanism conforms to the quality
standards of the Open and Distance learning education as specified by the Higher
Educational Institutions and further, the Higher Educational Institutions may offer
Certificate or Diploma or Post Graduate Diploma in professional programmes
(other than in engineering, medicine, dental, nursing, pharmacy, architecture and
physiotherapy etc. and programmes not permitted to be offered in distance mode by
any other regulatory authority) subject to the condition that the concerned Higher
Educational Institution has already obtained or received the requisite approvals
from the concerned statutory regulatory authorities or councils before the actual
start of such courses or programmes through Open and Distance Learning mode;
(vi) the Higher Educational Institutions shall have to exhibit the copies of the
approval letters duly obtained or received from the concerned statutory regulatory
authority or council to run the professional courses or programmes on the
Higher Educational Institutions website as well as against the name of the each
professional Certificate or Diploma or Post Graduate Diploma programmes in the
brochure or bulletin of the respective Higher Educational Institution and inform
the same to the University Grants Commission from time to time in the matter:

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