Wednesday, 23 March 2016

UK’s Open University team visits AIOU

A two-member appointment of world’s aboriginal Accessible University (OU) accustomed in the United Kingdom in 1969 visited the Allama Iqbal Accessible University (AIOU) to allotment its ability and acquaintance to addition up attainable superior education.


The visit, sponsored by the British Council in Islamabad, was aimed at allowance the AIOU in accustomed out its alliance plan, convalescent its bookish baronial and accouterment best accessible casework to the students.

Senior British academicians Dr. Nicholas Richard Watson and Mrs. Anna Childs on their accession at the university’s capital campus were accustomed by Vice Chancellor Professor Dr. Shahid Siddiqui. The appointment was acquainted of the AIOU’s approaching development plan that includes announcement avant-garde activated research, afterlight class and advance materials, able development, deepening students’ abutment arrangement and convalescent supply arrangement through acute use of technology.

During its five-day break here, the appointment will authority ‘Scoping study’ to accept the alive of AIOU and to advance agency and agency for its added improvement. Dr. Shahid Siddiqui in his acceptable animadversion accepted UK Accessible University for its solid addition in establishing AIOU in 1974 at its antecedent stage.

The UK OU aboriginal in the apple and AIOU aboriginal in Asia maintained abutting communication for abounding years in popularising accessible ambit learning. The abstraction of establishing an accessible university in Pakistan beneath an Act of Parliament was brought from UK by above Prime Minister Shaheed Zulfiaqar Ali Buhtto to action out illiteracy.

The AIOU, Dr. Siddiqui said, has accomplished its assured targets in bringing a ample amount of country’s citizenry in the educational net. Its anniversary acceptance has now jumped to 1.3 actor with a huge basement network. Now, the University was absorption on analysis plan and announcement E-learning. “We are alive on a plan to catechumen AIOU into E-learning University through a bit-by-bit process,” He added.

The appointment acclaimed the AIOU’s achievements in the contempo years and acclaimed that it fabricated acceptation advance in all accordant fields. It hoped their appointment will be advantageous one in allowance to accomplish approaching goals.

The appointment was accustomed abundant presentation on the University’s alive by the Director, Directorate of Overseas Apprenticeship & E-Learning Majid Rashid. It took annular of assorted departments to get contiguous ability of the university’s contempo developments. It will be captivation abstracted affairs with active of assorted departments for administering scoping abstraction of the University’s working.

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