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• Isn’t the Open University a bit lonely?

  
  Foreign Perspectives — Authority: 120
  In normal universities you expect to meet loads of other students but the perception is that it’s a different matter in the OU. However, if you’re following one of the recognised paths to a specific qualification you’ll often find that you’re with the same group of students for a fair number of years. For ...
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• Euro Myths

  
  Washminster — Authority: 130
  I attended a tutors staff development day at the Open University today. One of the courses I teach on for the OU is W200 - Understanding Law. We had the opportunity to share useful resources. One of my colleagues drew my attention to the following very very funny video about "Euromyths" which comes from an episode of ...
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• Reforming distance education in Portugal

  
  Tony Bates — Authority: 519
  Tajo el Castillo de Almourol, Portugal (from Flickr © Hamster Volador, Creative Commons License) Hasan, A. et al. (2009) Reforming Distance Learning Higher Education in Portugal Lisbon Portugal: Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education
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• The current status of the Open University of Japan

  
  Tony Bates — Authority: 519
  Aoki, K. (2009) The current status of the Open University of Japan Re.ViCa Newsletter , November The Re.Vica newsletter contains an interesting update on the Open University of Japan, formerly known as the University of the Air (in English). Comment It can be seen that the OUJ is struggling to adapt to changes ...
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• Cooperatives should work for financial inclusion of poor: experts

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Bhopal, Nov 27 (IANS) Experts at a workshop on strengthening of cooperatives here Friday agreed on a concrete action plan to promote cooperatives for deeper and sustainable financial engagement of the poor.Experts from cooperatives, law, UN organizations, Training and Research institutions, government and microfinance ...
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• Salary of Rs 14 lakhs in 1997 to employee of charitable Trust held to be unreasonable

  
  LEGAL & FINANCIAL UPDATES FROM TAX GURU — Authority: 452
  Her salary has been further increased disproportionately vis-a-vis the increase in the revenue and the surplus. This increase is over and above the increase for assessment year 1998-99, in which her salary was found to be excessive under the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website www.taxguru.in for ...
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• Low participation = high dropout rate?

  
  Foreign Perspectives — Authority: 120
  Starting a degree at level two causes me the minor problem that I’ll be short 60 points by the time I finish what would have ordinarily been the final course had I started at level one. In the course of looking at how I might pick up those 60 points I’d already started on 30 of them courtesy of the human biology ...
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• Student Voices in the P2P Provisions of the 2008 HEOA

  
  FreeCulture.org - Students for Free Culture — Authority: 92
  As you undoubtedly know, college campuses are, in many ways, ground zero for the battles being waged for the future of intellectual property. The thousands of Americans that have been sued by the entertainment industry in the past few years include countless students who were accused of illegally downloading music. ...
  6 days ago

• Teleuse@BOP research presented to Indian media academics

  
  LIRNEasia — Authority: 131
  There is a massive mismatch between the supply and demand for education in journalism and electronic media in India. All media markets, MSM and new, are booming, with a massive demand for people to work in them. Demand is being met mostly by unaccredited private establishments, and by on-the-job training. The ...
  1 week ago

• Is the Open University too open?

  
  Foreign Perspectives — Authority: 120
  One of the great things about the Open University is that you can sign up for pretty much any course that takes your fancy yet that’s also one of the problems with it too from the student point of view. It’s fine if you know what you want to do. No hassles with having to prove that you meet the entry requirements ...
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• IGNOU’s web presence increases

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  New Delhi, Nov 22 (IANS) The Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) has been ranked 15th in India in terms of its visibility on the internet and scholarly papers on the worldwide web, university vice chancellor V.N. Rajasekharan Pillai said Sunday.The ranking by Spain-based public research institution ...
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• Unesco keen to jointly certify select IGNOU courses

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  New Delhi, Nov 20 (IANS) Unesco has evinced interest in jointly certifying select programmes being offered by the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU).Armoogum Parsuramen, director of Unesco’s South Asia office, said the UN arm would, for starters, look at certifying IGNOU’s master’s course in ...
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• Indira Gandhi National Open University, Security Skills Council of India, National Institute for the Mentally Handicapped, CIPET Satelite Centre-Manch

  
  Admission News — Authority: 127
  ADMISSION IN TO INDIRA GANDHI NATIONAL OPEN UNIVERSITY, NEW DELHI. Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi in Collaboration with Security Skills Council of India, New Delhi invites application from eligible candidates for admission in to Post Graduate Certificate in Security Operations Program & Post ...
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• Open University Hits 10 Million Downloads on iTunes

  
  Open Education News — Authority: 143
  Vicky Woollaston is reporting that the Open University has reached 10 million downloads on iTunes.
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• People achieve self-dignity through education: Patil

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  New Delhi, Nov 19 (ANI): President Pratibha Patil said here on Thursday that education is a very powerful tool for empowering people and for giving them self-dignity.Addressing the silver jubilee celebrations of the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) here Patil said: “The importance of education cannot ...
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• Distance education could address dearth of teachers: Sibal

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  New Delhi, Nov 19 (IANS) Distance education, via cell phones and other technology geared to provide open access to education, could address the dearth of teachers plaguing the Indian education system, Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal said Thursday.“There is a need for distance education (in India) ...
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• President calls for hiking gross enrolment in education

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  New Delhi, Nov 19 (IANS) Emphasising that the number of enrolments in primary and secondary education is very low in the country compared to rest of the world, President Pratibha Patil Thursday called for making “strenuous efforts” to increase gross enrolment.Gross enrolment ratio is the number of students ...
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• Karnatak University, Vinod Gupta School of Management, College of Nursing AFMC, Pune, Indira Gandhi National Open University

  
  Admission News — Authority: 127
  ADMISSION IN TO KARNATAK UNIVERSITY. Applications are invited from eligible candidates for admission in to the Graduate and Post Graduate Courses in the following external Branch / School of Correspondence Education of Karnatak University 1. School of Languages: B.A. (Part I,II & III) Course With basic / ...
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• The Argument for Free Classes via iTunes

  
  Bits — Authority: 754
  The music, videos and mobile applications available through Apple’s iTunes Store get all the attention, but it might be time to acknowledge the increasingly varied and popular offerings of iTunes U, Apple’s catalog of lectures from colleges and universities around the world. More than 600 schools post lectures to ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Argument for Free Classes via iTunes

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 904
  Open University, a distance-learning institution based in Britain, has delivered 10 million free downloads of lectures via Apples iTunes U, which is two years old.
  2 weeks ago

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