Student Bodies Oppose UGC’s Blended Mode Of Learning, To Send Petition To President

New Delhi: Several student bodies have opposed the University Grants Commission’s (UGC) idea of a blended mode of education via an online petition. The petition will be submitted to President Ram Nath Kovind.

Umbrella organisation, All India Forum to Save Public Education, which has student representatives from various organisations like the Students’ Federation of India, Chhatra RJD and JNUSU, has already started the petition.

The petition had gained 1,204 signatures from students across the country by 11.45 pm on Saturday.

According to the petition, the UGC’s blended mode of education would “widen the existing structural differences, reduce the objective of educational institutions to profit-making, and implement a bureaucratic surveillance network that would help the government curb opposing voices in higher educational institutions”.

“Moreover, any advantage that might arise from the blended mode comes at a greater cost of exclusion of students from marginalized communities from getting higher education,” the petition further said.

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