There are people who are pushed to give up their education for so many reasons, for all these people open universities provide for opportunites to get back to task.
The idea of liberation of any society is very
proximate to the ideal of universal education. This dearness is a result of general
understanding and recognition of the fact that only an educated society can
take us from superstition to science, ignorance to intelligence and
senselessness of life to significance of life. All modern day nation-states
have realised the importance of a move towards universal education, and it
stands as a prior subject in their business.
For universal education in a society, no specific
model has been developed to this day as the world around is, to say the least,
is complex and all matters causing deficiencies shall have to be treated
specially, that is, everything that bars a person to have education needs to be
treated in a manner that suits its persona and helps in overcoming all inhibitions.
An interesting answer to this demand comes in form of open
schools and open universities, popularly known as people’s universities. These
universities and schools enable those people to have education who couldn’t do
so in normal ways because of the various abnormal terms life made them to live
with. There are people who are pushed to give up their education for so many
reasons or take up the jobs instead of completing their graduation or high
school or people who cannot go to college or university for higher education
anymore— open universities have been acting as an opportunity for all of these
people from a long time. Credit based evaluation system allows candidates for greater
time than usual course span to provide more chances for completion of their
degree courses.
Most of the programmes within the fold of these open
universities fall in the category of distance learning, which facilitates students to keep up with their
studies while doing other stuffs as well.Over the years open universities have
evolved themselves to come at par with physical regular classroom universities.
India’s largest open school of learning, Indira Gandhi National Open University,
offers around 230 courses that includes certificate, diploma, graduate,
post-graduate and doctoral level degree courses. Some more than 13 open universities
have been very creative with respect to spectrum of courses it provides for.
Certificate courses such as Creative Writing and Bee Keeping
and more modern day programmes such diplomas in audio production give fine insights
about the vision that these universities are functioning with— a vision that
takes them away from their fundamental charcter of student opting open
university under duress to a character inheriting creativity and aiming at enhancing
skill set of professionals working in various fields. Advent of technology and
institutional efforts combined with its success of all these years has brought enough
resources to university to set up more and more study centres in small town and
cities other than its regional centres, which makes it more communicable and efficient
for students.
In a country as diverse as India with its even large set
of complexities, open universities are only available sources of education for
a large lot of people. Amidst such scenario, on part of candidates, quality
study material with a blend of digital
mode of learning has to be a genuine urge.