latest AIOU admission Islamabad

Allama Iqbal Open University is a largest university of Pakistan. over the years is enroll thousand of student over all  Pakistan and as well as overseas. 

latest AIOU admission  Islamabad 

Introducing Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU)

Introducing Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU), Islamabad. The Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU) commonly abbreviated as AIOU, was established in May 1974. The objective of AIOU is to provide educational opportunities to allover of Pakistan the masses and those who cannot leave their homes and jobs. In all the past years, the university has more this promise.

 

Allama Iqbal Open University AIOU Brief Introduction

AIOU opened educational for working people & gave access to women on their steps. The work in the field of mass education. It is now breaking new in the field of vocational, scientific & technical education. And they are trying to reach the most remote areas of Pakistan. It is also trying to use modern information technology to spread education in Pakistan.

What are the main objectives of AIOU?

The main objectives of the university, as expressed in the Rules are as follows:

·         Providing educational facilities to people who cannot leave their office and jobs in a way they determine.

·         It provides the masses with such facilities for their educational as it may determine.

·         To provide means for training teachers in a manner of their own choosing.

·         Also to provide for instruction in such branches of technology of learning or profession as it may think fit, and to provide for research and advancement and dissemination of knowledge in such as it may determine.

·         To conduct examinations and award and confer degrees, diplomas, certificates and other academic awards.

What are the main features of AIOU?

·         Since its inception, Allama Iqbal Open University has been providing and its educational and training facilities to help working men and women to enhance their qualifications and professional skills.

·         The operating semester system is offered twice one year, spring and autumn.

·         The largest university in the country with a student enrollment of more than 1.2 million annually.

·         More than 2000 courses on offer.

·         9 regional campuses, 33 regional centers, 41 approved study centers (for full-time programs) and 138 regional part-time coordination offices.

·         1172 study centers are established all over Pakistan.

·         The largest publishing house in Pakistan prints over 1.8 million books annually.

·         Greater emphasis on science and technology by introducing programs in fields such as physics, agricultural extension, livestock management and nutrition, forestry extension, computer science. Cooperation with the private sector in the establishment of study centers for the provision of coaching and practical training in the fields of informatics and management.

Largest teacher education institution in Pakistan with an average enrollment of over 400,000 students

The first university in Pakistan to establish a student database.

Automation in the main campus and regions by providing approximately 700 computers.

Provision of network facilities between main campus and region for data/information exchange and student grievance.

Providing internet services in the main campus.

Collaboration with Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC) for providing laboratory facilities to AIOU students.

Establishment of an information center for basic functional education (mainly for the illiterate), literacy and post-literacy materials.

A pioneer institution in Pakistan offering postgraduate programs in special education.

The only institution in the country to offer postgraduate programs in educational planning and management.

Latest AIOU Degrees

Introduction of Master's, M.Phil and Ph.D. programs to develop professionals and strengthen research capabilities in teaching and research institutions.

A well-established Institute of Educational Technology (IET) with its own facilities for the production of television, radio and non-broadcast.

"AIOU Magazine" is a regular television program produced at IET studios and broadcast fortnightly from PTV-National on the first and third Monday of every month. This program contains news about the latest academic and co-curricular activities going on during the month. The university has its own FM radio and live FM radio broadcast is made available for AIOU students.

An endowment fund established with an initial amount of Rs 15 million in 1997, has now grown to over Rs 4 bill. for development activities such as:

AIOU Automation

AIOU, when it was founded in 1974, was the second open university in the world and the first in Asia and Africa. It therefore speaks of the foresight of the politicians of that time. As AIOU's recent years have shown, distance education has opened up new opportunities for millions, especially women, and has greatly complemented the efforts of federal and provincial governments without straining their resources.

 The idea of ​​distance education has gained more importance and acceptance in Pakistan due to the factors of poverty and relative lack of women. Literacy rates, dropout rates and higher education are much lower in Pakistan's poorer classes. The incidence of poverty is much higher in rural areas where formal education is much less established. Literacy and education rates are much lower for women in Pakistan, especially in rural areas, due to poverty and conservative traditions. Many conservative parents, under the pressure of old traditions, do not allow their daughters to go to school. AIOU thus provided educational opportunities to these girls and housewives through its distance education system. This explains the reasons why the majority of students enrolled at the university are women.

Employee development.

·         Purchase of land for regional centers, construction of dormitories for students

·         Construction of regional center buildings, academic blocks, multi-purpose center with 43 buildings

·         Networking of regions with the main campus.

·         Establishing a database in the main campus.

·         Purchase of furniture, transportation for students.

·         Establishing a student assistance fund to help deserving students pay tuition.

·         Providing free education at the University for its employees and their sons and daughters