Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) embarks on dual mode education delivery system, by offering full time courses.


Last Updated: 2009-08-24T02:50:43+05:30

IGNOU To Offer Full Time Courses

New Delhi: Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) is starting the dual mode education delivery system, by offering full time courses as well. On Sunday i.e. 23rd August 2009, the University has announced its entry into the usual mode of education by offering full-time graduate and four postgraduate programmes, apart from the usual distance-learning ones.
 
IGNOU will offer full-time programmes leading to graduate and postgraduate degrees in Science, Engineering and Technology, Architecture and Health Sciences. V N Rajasekharan Pillai, Vice Chancellor of IGNOU, said that keeping with the international trends, IGNOU is now following supple modes of education delivery. This mode combines face-to-face, distance and on-line approaches of dissemination. He also added that majority of the programmes in the university are now being offered in dual-mode, combining distance teaching, academic counseling with regular practicals project work and work-place training.
- By Madiha Wasi
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