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Netaji Subhas Open University wins Commonwealth award
Netaji Subhas Open University, Kolkata, is one of the joint recipients of the Commonwealth of Learning (COL) Excellence in Distance Education Award for Institutional Achievement, 2006.
The award was presented on November 2 to the Vice-Chancellor of the University, Professor Surabhi Banerjee, by COL — an intergovernmental, international apex organisation for open and distance learning in 53 Commonwealth countries — during the Fourth Pan-Commonwealth Forum on Open Learning in Ocho Rios, Jamaica.
The two other universities conferred the award are the University of Botswana and the University of South Pacific in the Caribbean.
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