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IGNOU to open study centres in six European
countries
Wednesday, September 22, 2010 05:28:48 PM,
Gyanendra Kumar Keshri, IANS
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New Delhi: The Indira
Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), the largest in the world,
will open study centres in six European nations, including Germany
and France, to offer personalised courses, its Vice Chancellor V.N.
Rajasekharan Pillai has said.
"We will open our centre in Paris next month. Negotiation is going
on with Germany. I hope we will start in Germany by the end of
this year. Our target is to open five-six centres in Europe by
July 2011," Pillai told IANS.
The Netherlands and Austria are other European countries where
IGNOU, the world's largest by student enrollment, is considering
to open study centres. It already has a centre in London, the vice
chancellor added.
Pillai, who also heads the government's Distance Education
Council, said IGNOU would also offer personalised courses in
Gandhian studies and some Indian languages such as Sanskrit
through its new study centres in Europe, besides the regular
courses.
"We are in discussion with several institutes in the US, Australia
and Europe to develop personalised courses. It will be done
keeping in mind the needs of partner institutes," he said, adding
IGNOU's low course fee was hindrance in forging accords overseas.
"Our fee is quite low when you compare it with what is charged by
universities in the developed countries. We are planning to
restructure the fees for courses offered outside India," Pillai
said.
IGNOU has presence in 35 countries through 56 study centres. Over
42,000 students are enrolled at its overseas centres. More than 90
percent of them are the people of India origin.
The vice chancellor said student enrolments at the university have
almost trebled in the last four years.
"Now we have 3.2 million active enrollments. It was 1.1 million in
2006. This indicates increasing popularity of distance education,"
said Pillai, adding the university targets to sustain over 25
percent annual growth in enrollments in the coming years.
IGNOU courses were also becoming increasingly popular in Africa
and the Gulf region that has a large strength of India
expatriates. "Many African universities have approached us for
collaboration. We will help in designing course and study
materials."
He said IGNOU will also introduce e-books within six months to
increase the popularity of its courses among high-tech students.
"We will start with management and IT and gradually introduce it
for all the courses. It is cost effective and user friendly."
The university also plans to introduce video-conferencing
facilities for all its 56 overseas study centres within a few
months.
(Gyanendra Kumar Keshri can be contacted
at gyanendra.k@ians.in
and biz@ians.in)
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