Open varsity launches two courses on COVID-19
The Hindu
Tamil Nadu Open University, along with The Tamil Nadu Dr. MGR Medical University, has launched two courses on COVID-19. The duration of the courses will be one month and three months. Anyone with a d
Tamil Nadu Open University, along with The Tamil Nadu Dr. MGR Medical University, has launched two courses on COVID-19. The duration of the courses will be one month and three months. Anyone with a degree, students of nursing who have completed their degree and nursing tutors and faculty can apply.
An agreement was signed by the registrars of the respective universities — M.B. Aswath Kumar of the medical university and K. Ratnakumar of the Open University — last week.
Vice-Chancellor Sudha Seshayyan and her counterpart in Open University K. Parthasarathy participated in the event.
Around 440 MBBS graduates of 2021 are not required to undergo one year of compulsory rural service as per the bond signed by them while joining the medical course through government-quota seats in 2015 as the High Court of Karnataka has said the law, enacted in 2012 for mandatory rural service, remained unenforced for 10 years as it was published in the official gazette only in July 2022.