Meta Universities
The main purpose of the Meta University is to share learning resources with different Universities by using the latest technologies available in order to enable the students to benefit from the learning resources available in different institutions. The University Grants Commission (UGC) as the apex regulatory body for universities, has decided to come out with detailed guidelines on Meta Universities.
The participating institutions/universities share their learning resources to provide students with a more holistic learning experience. Hence such programmes are joint degree programmes, as clarified by UGC to Delhi University.
The Central Government has written letters to the University of Calcutta, Jadavpur University Calcutta, the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, the University of Hyderabad, the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad, the English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad and the Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad to launch this kind of model. The University of Calcutta, the English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad and the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta have expressed their interest in Meta Universities.
Higher Educational Institutions being fully autonomous entities, it is now left to them to collaborate and identify the courses/programmes to be offered in the Meta Universities. One such Meta University has already been started in Delhi.
This information was given by the Minister of State for Human Resource Development, Dr. Shashi Tharoor in Lok Sabha on Wednesday.
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