IGNOU to open study centres in European countries
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 personalized 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 .
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 personalized courses in Gandhian studies and some Indian languages such as Sanskrit through its new study centres in Europe, besides the regular courses.
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