32nd Meeting of Academic Council - IGNOU

• Availability and use of existing SLM repository of IGNOU.
• Programme structure.
• Gazette notification of Tamil Nadu Government regarding
Community Colleges.
As an outcome of these deliberations, Award letters were issued to 108
institutions. The Community Colleges have submitted and undertaking
and the Community College Board, Academic Committee and
Examination Committee have been formed by the respective Colleges.
IGNOU representatives on all the bodies have been nominated and
Visit/Community College Board/Academic Committee meetings have
commenced.
The Indian Centre for Research and Development of Community College
(ICRDCE) of Chennai organized a meeting of its Community Colleges in
collaboration with IGNOU and Tamil Nadu Open University on 22 nd and
23 rd June, 2009 and deliberated on the integration of Tamil Nadu Open
University Community College Students into the Associate Degree
programme of IGNOU.
The Vice-Chancellor had an interaction with the Hon’ble Minister of
Human Resource Development on 10 th June, 2009 regarding the Scheme
and after detailed deliberations, it was decided to have a National Launch
of the Associate Degree programme on 4 th July, 2009.
Presently, the Scheme receives no financial support from IGNOU and it is
worth mentioning that all participation so far has been purely voluntary.
A few of the Community Colleges have provision for nominal scholarship
out of their Trust/Society funds and some others are making arrangements
for bank loans. The Regional Meeting for the Western Region in which
approximately 70 institutions have been invited is scheduled for 13 th July,
2009. Meetings for further applications and other regions will be done
consequently.
In order to institutionalize the mechanism, decisions in respect of the
following are to be made:
• Material procurement rate for Community Colleges’ from
IGNOU.
• Fee slab for various programmes.
Academic and administrative arrangements for the Scheme in IGNOU:
• Creation of a Community College Board.
• Constitution of Boards of Studies for different disciplines by the
Board.
• Unit for Quality Assurance of Community Colleges.
• Material Production and dissemination.
• ICT deployment and capacity building of Community Colleges.