The Online Distance and Digitally Delivered Learning (ODDL) Grant is a part of the Going Global Partnerships programme that has been initiated by the British Council to address the issues of access, equity and quality learning outcomes and achieve “equitable, quality education and lifelong learning for all by 2030”.

The objective of the grant: 

  • Use of grant to increase understanding of each others systems, challenges and approaches to delivering their role, be it regulation, pedagogy or quality control. This could be through exchange visit, series of webinars, roundtables b. Identify areas for further collaboration for institutional strengthening of online education management and delivery capacity, increasing the choice for students or improving the profile of the courses and employability of students and submit a report of what they learnt as well as what they plan together.
  • The partnership may address how technology can be harnessed or shared to improve the student experience of learning and improve learning outcome of the students.
  • The partnership may address issues such as low completion rates, lack of profile and market value of the courses with employers etc and offer solutions through joint deliberations consultation and research. 
  • The partnership may address how quality and rigour of assessment and overall regulation and management of online learning systems as a whole as well as improving centre for internal quality assurance of universities as outlined in the regulations.
  • To showcase the possibilities of high-quality learning experience and skill acquisition through ODDL collaborative models.

Eligibility Criteria

Each proposal must have both:

• one Lead institution from India;

• one Lead institution from the UK and

• The proposal must be prepared jointly by leads from all partnering institutions but submitted by the Lead from the UK Institution

UK Lead institution must be one of the following:

• Higher Education provider with degree awarding powers.

o England - Check the ‘awarding degrees’ drop down section on the specific provider’s entry on the OFS register. The OFS register lists all institutions which offer UK degrees, not all of which have degree awarding powers.

o Northern Ireland – https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/articles/universities-and-colleges-northern-...

o Scotland – https://www.gov.scot/policies/universities/

o Wales – https://www.gov.uk/check-university-award-degree/recognised-bodies-wales

• Not-for-profit research institutions, Charitable establishment and organisations with a role in Higher Education. (See Annex 1 for a complete list of these).

• Any public or private organisations with a role in the Regulation and Quality Assurance Online Distance and Digitally Delivered Learning

India lead institution must be one of the following:

• All tertiary Higher Educational Institutions (public or private) that are recognised by the State government or Central government and its institutions like UGC (University Grants Commission) or AICTE (All India Council for Technical Education) in India.

• All not for profit research institutions, organisations are also eligible. In case of doubt, please do check with British Council.

• Any public or private organisations with a role in the Online Distant and Digitally Delivered learning

*Please refer call guidelines for full details.

How to apply

Applicants must submit a completed application form via MS Forms. Please note, no email submissions are accepted as part of this call.

Please click here to access the online application form. The Budget sheet should be submitted as an attachment in the mail in excel format only.

For more details, please refer to the call guidelines. 

Key dates:

Call open: 30 January 2025

Call to be closed: 25 February 2025, 23:59 (UK Time)

Result to be announced: 12 March 2025

Contracts signed: 22 March 2025

Grant disbursement period: 100 % by March 2025

For more information, write to us at GoingGlobalIndia@in.britishcouncil.org