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KSOU has decided to discontinue the online process of admission. Instead, it has decided to opt for the enrollment process. UGC decided the last date for admissions to KSOU to be 1st October, but the prospectus has not yet been released so KSOU has shifted its admission process.
Karnataka has decided to drop the online admission process for the 17 in-house courses at the Karnataka State Open University (KSOU) for the academic year 2018-19 and instead, will opt for campus enrollment process.This decision was taken following USC fixing October 1, 2018 as the last date for applications to the in-house courses.
KSOU had secured the UGC recognition for a period of five years and with UGC announcing October 1 as the deadline, but with the prospectus and the application form for the admission process not yet printed, KSOU found itself in a soup and hence decided to go for campus enrollment rather than online admissions.
The Vice-Chancellor of KSOU D. Shivalinagaiah told reporters that the admissions will commence from the first week of September and all the necessary details will be uploaded on the official website of KSOU. He continued by saying that all the eligible students will get admission irrespective of their age, score attained in the qualifying examination.
Unlike before, the candidates who want to opt for Postgraduate programmes should have a Bachelors degree and the candidates applying for Undergraduate programmes should have appeared for the equivalent examinations.
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The fees set in 2014 will continue and the self- learning material will be available in English and Kannada for the students. Additional notes will also be available on the UGC directories and the students should have Addhaar card and bank account for taking admission in KSOU.
D. Shivalinagaiah also stated that over 4400 colleges were forced to shut down when KSOU decided to untie all the collaborations with other institutes in the state. He continued by saying that due to the de-recognition, the institute faced around a loss of ₹30 crores every year.
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UGC turned down recognition of 15 courses like B.Ed, MBA& LLM as these courses needed consent from the National Council for Teacher Education(NCTE), AICTE & Bar Council of India (BCI) respectively.
Besides this, recognition was also not given to the M.Sc. Courses for dearth of teaching faculty. Prof. Shivalinagaiah said that the institute will make a fresh appeal to the UGC for recognition of these 15 courses.
