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Distance Education Council
In a huge country like India where fruits of development are not equally distributed, the importance of distance education is tremendous. It can significantly improve the quality of life of the people by making technology-mediated education accessible to the remotest corner of the country and all those who cannot afford to attend regular classes. But maintaining the quality of distance education is a hilarious task. Therefore the Distance Education Council or DEC, as it is now popularly known, was established under the Indira Gandhi National Open University Act, 1985 primarily to determine the standards of distance education in India.
It is also responsible for promotion and co-ordination of the distance education system. Approval of the Distance Education Council is mandatory for all the degrees awarded through distance education in India. Therefore it would be good for the students to pursue distance-learning courses from institutes that are recognized by the Distance Education Council.
Distance education council provides the guiding principles of education to support excellence, promotes use of modern technology, and permits a union of all educational systems. The council allocates funds through a joint networking for access of education, by providing training to all. The council works for the harmonization, resolves the standards of teaching, valuation, and investigation in such systems. This council encourages a mixture of accessibility and novelty in education at the University level. To fulfill this purpose the council makes use of the current scientific knowledge and new technology. It tries to make more collaboration among the various Universities across India.
The distance education council also encourages state government to open more universities and some distance education courses to make an association of such institutions. The council offers support and grants with educational guidelines about open and distance education. The distance education council creates rules and measures in reverence of admission, certification and valuation.
The distance education council consults with the state governments and other agencies to find out primary areas in which the distance education programs could be arranged. To support such programs is an important duty of the council. The council finds out the specific customer groups and various programs that can be arranged for them. The council promotes some novel education systems of University level education that are stretchy and open. The distance education council decides the eligibility criteria for enrolment, age level for admission and manner of exam.
The distance education council promotes the arrangement of programs of human resource development for the distance education system. The council collects and distributes information concerning to the different programs provided by various open universities. One of the major responsibilities of the council is to assign Review Committees at the proper time to study and evaluate the performance of distance education institutes.
Related link: http://www.dec.ac.in/
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