AIOU to start online classes from Jan 08

Islamabad, Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU) Vice Chancellor, Professor Dr. Nazir Ahmed Sangi said that university is going to conduct online classes of Computer Science in Umerkot and DG Khan regions from January 8. He declared this after laying foundation stone of ‘Bachelor and Foreign Faculty Hostel’ at the university.
 
The hostel would be established in an area of 43000sft with a cost of Rs139 million. The 5-story building is planned to be finished in 21 months. He emphasized on the need of education and said that without getting education nations cannot made progress.

He said that regional campuses and model study centres have been established while through ‘Educate a Child’ schemeone million children would be registered and target would be attained by June next, he said.

He further said that AIOU is working hard to consume talent and resources to enlarge and firming educational network in the country. Vice-Chancellor Gomal University, Professor Dr Mansoor Akbar Kundi praised the development of educational facilities.

The University with its main campus at Islamabad and huge network of regional centers spread all over the country is serving its custom all over Pakistan and in the Middle East. AIOU is a Distance Education institution, which provides multi-disciplinary education from basic to doctoral level programs.

The university has established 36 regional campuses and centers in several parts of the country to coordinate and facilitate decentralized system of education of the university. The regional directors keep a schedule of qualified teachers and experts in each field of study in their area and enlist them as the university’s part-time tutors. Each group of students is assigned to a tutor for guidance.

AIOU already has 36 to 40 campuses all over the country, the number of these campuses will be increased to 39 within this year, the VC added. He appreciated the gesture of some public representatives and well-to-do people who had offered land to the university free of cost for building new campuses and study centers in various regions.

AIOU has been focusing on expanding its academic network to wide-ranging areas and providing education to the neglected regions of the society.