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Indira Gandhi National Open University |
Indira Gandhi National Open University was founded in 1985 with a motive to envision higher studies for all. The objective was to provide cost-effective, quality education to large sections of students including those living in remote areas. A mere fifteen years since its inception Indira Gandhi National Open University has carved a niche for itself among the primer educational institutions in the country. The University has an effective and efficient network of 26 Regional and 504 Study centres, all over India. Indira Gandhi National Open University aims to impart education and knowledge through various means suited to the Open and Distance Education Mode.
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Indira Gandhi National Open University encourages, coordinates and assists Open Universities and Distance Education systems while determining standards in such systems in the country. Indira Gandhi National Open University helps in providing national integration and strengthen the natural and human resources of the country through the medium of education.
Distance Learning Programmes Offered:
Indira Gandhi National Open University offers the following programmes:
- Doctoral programmes
- Master’s Degree programmes
- Bachelor’s Degree
- PG Diploma programmes
- Diploma programmes
- Certificate programmes
- Awareness programmes
This open university is making all efforts to take Distance Learning in India to utmost heights. It also acts as a national resource centre; and more importantly, functions as an apex body to promote and maintain standards of distance education. The university has its presence in 35 countries and is one of the Popular Institutions of Distance Learning. The Commonwealth of Learning has recognized it as one of its centres of excellence. Today, earning degrees through the distance mode of education has come to be accepted as a well relevant to and necessary for meeting the emerging demands of our society. It has been making tireless efforts in offering programmes in as many as 50 areas covering a very wide range of subjects such as computers, nursing, management, creative writing, rural development, Panchayati Raj, disaster management, participatory forest management, tourism, women's empowerment etc. Distance learning through open university will not only help to overcome illiteracy but also help to generate employment .
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