New Delhi: Human Resources Development minister in UPA Government at the Centre, Kapil Sibal,  informed press on Friday that a University based on internet would be started by 2013, from next educational year. A student can pursue a course of his liking and get a degree thereby without bound by rules or regulations in a campus, he declared.

The META University will be formed by combining several Universities. An Engineering student can, if he so wishes, obtain a Degree in Literature/Arts under the Meta scheme, Sibal told a gathering at a function organised by Indo-American chamber of Commerce here on February 3.

There may be many a doubt lingering in some minds about such a course in education, but this new path could outrun many old or traditional Universities, he added, in longer run.

Sibal as an agent of modern education in progress in India as compared to Nalanda or oxford, said that the educational methods have to be globalised as desired by many thinkers.

At the same time, Sibal also mentioned that a new bill that provides opportunity to foreign universities to have their branches in India would also be passed into law.