kozhikode the university grants commission ugc has reinstated the recognition of the calicut university to offer open and distance learning odl programmes the ugc on friday allowed the varsity to offer 26 courses under the school of distance education sde for 201718 and 201819the ugc had in september 2015 withdrawn the recognition for the academic year 201516 taking strong exception to the varsity operating offcampus counselling centres outside its territorial jurisdiction including in the gulf the varsity was then made to submit an undertaking that it would comply with the ugc directives on conducting odl programmes the varsity had shut down over 200 counselling and programme centres and had converted the registration of tens of thousands of sde students to private registration to comply with the ugc orderwe will start fresh admissions from the next academic year said sde director v m kannan