AIOU starts specific educational programmes for female students

Islamabad: Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU) has introduced the most-specific educational programmes for the interest of females, empowering them to earn their livelihood as well as contribute to social-economic development of the country.

These newly introduced programmes are mainly relating to community education, agriculture farming, gender and women studies, health and nutrition as well as marketing of home-made goods.

These programs are from basic level to M.Sc level for which the admission date for spring semester, 2016 has been extended till September 30^th, 2016 without any late fee.

The females-relating programs have been particularly designed to meet their basic educational requirements. This is part of the continuous efforts of university facilitating the women to get them educated even while staying at home via distance learning system (DLS).

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Presently, the main receivers of the system are women, which consist of 57% of the total enrolment (1.3 million) of AIOU.

Recently, AIOU has recently entered into collaborative partnership along with Plan International and a private NGO Sanjh Preet for the promotion of female education in the backward and less-developed regions of the country through non-formal DLS.

Under this agreement, First Track Learning Centres (FTLC’s) will be established in the country for middle-level education.

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In the first stage, a learning centre along with 1200 girls will be established in district Nankana Sahib by adopting the ethnic model of education of Allama Iqbal Open University. The same model will be replicated in other parts of the country via gradual procedure to target the relegated rural families, said AIOU VC at the signing ceremony.

These projects are targeted at establishing connectivity between the educational institutions and the society as well, said VC.

The University has successfully put into action the open-schooling model for middle class students in District Vehari, Chakwal and Thatta. This action is facilitating thousands of out-of-school girls who were deprived of the basic facility of education because of the financial and social reasons.