IGNOU will open study center in Zambia soon

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(Free-Press-Release.com) February 14, 2012 -- Collaboration in MBA programme, Master in Education Management and Educational Economics are the fields in which ZOU desires to open an IGNOU study center.

Prof. M. Aslam, Vice Chancellor, stated that though no Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) has been signed as yet but a mutual agreement has been arrived at with Prof. Dickson Mwansa, Vice Chancellor of ZOU and Mr. Bwalya Lyapa Nondo, First Secretary, Republic of Zambia.

Both the delegates visited the university headquarters in the capital to explore possibility of future collaboration with the university.

Aslam briefed them about the university through a presentation.

He apprised them with the fact that IGNOU already is functioning abroad with 82 partner institutions across 43 countries including Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.

According to him, quality and sustainability is the most important criteria of collaboration with the partner institutions to spread global education in the world.

ZOU was established 14 years back with 369 students.

It is the only Open University in Zambia which now has 6000 students on its rolls. It has ten schools and to name a few, Agriculture, Performing and Visual Arts, Social Science, Law, Mathematics, Education, Continuing Education are some of them.

IGNOU declares December 2011 TEE results

The Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) , New Delhi has added another feather on its cap by declaring the December 2011 Term End Examination (TEE) results of over 90 percent students in a month's time. A record 4,17,047 students appeared for 2045 courses at 803 examination centres including 40 international.

The last exam for December 2011 session concluded on 29th December 2011. As per the ordinance, the exam results are meant to be declared within the stipulated time period of 45 days.

Evaluators were drawn from prestigious institutions across the country and IGNOU faculty members were involved in the evaluation work.

The University had decentralised the evaluation work to seven evaluation centres established in different parts of the country. Different measures were taken up in order to gear up the system in this direction. Keeping this in view, the university extended the Scheme of Spot Evaluation to the evaluation centres all over India. The evaluation of answer scripts at the evaluation centres were monitored by the senior faculty members, directors and examination committee/ standing committee on evaluation in order to meet the deadline.

The evaluation centres, under their supervision, tied-up with the local reputed educational institutions/ universities, if available, for evaluation of the answer scripts in their premises under the supervision of the evaluation centre. This type of arrangement was done where there were a large number of answer-scripts to be handled.

Continuous flow of result data was possible with the help of computer personnel and software engineers who were involved in the data processing in the Student Evaluation Division (SED) at the headquarters.

IGNOU-IIMSHE ties up with The Podium for BPO course

BHOPAL: Indira Gandhi National Open University and Institute of Industrial Management for Safety, Health and Environment (IGNOU-IIMSHE) here have joined hands with a Bangalore-based skill enhancement company - The Podium - for introducing a course to develop domestic call centre professionals, primarily for telecom industry. The course would commence from February 13.

"The enrolment of the class XII pass out students for the 120 hours course spread over 21 days will begin on Wednesday, "IGNOU regional director Dr K S Tiwari and Dr S A Pillai Managing Director, IGNOU-IIMSHE told reporters on Tuesday.

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