Profile 2010 - IGNOU

Diploma in Nutrition and Health
Education (DNHE)
This programme imparts basic knowledge on nutrition
and health. It also trains personnel in imparting this
knowledge to the community at large.
Diploma in Early Childhood Care and Education
(DECE)
This programme helps learners to acquire adequate
knowledge, right attitudes and skills necessary for
working with children in the age group 0-6 years. It also
equips them with skills of organising and managing
child care centres like creches, pre-schools, nursery
schools and day-care centres. This programme is offered
in three languages: English, Hindi and Tamil.
Certificate Programme in Rural Development
(CRD)
The aim of this programme is to acquaint learners with
basic aspects of rural development in India.
Certificate in Food and Nutrition (CFN)
In this programme, the learner is acquainted with good
eating habits and the role of food in ensuring healthy
living for the individual, the family and the community.
This programme is offered in several languages:
Assamese, English, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam,
Marathi, Punjabi, Oriya and Tamil.
Certificate in Nutrition and Child Care (CNCC)
This programme aims at developing knowledge,
understanding and skills regarding nutrition and child
development.
Certificate Programme in Food Safety (CFS)
The University, in collaboration with the Ministry of
Health and Family Welfare, Government of India, has
launched this professional and career upgradation online
programme in the area of food safety and quality. The
programme focuses on the knowledge upgradation and
enrichment in the area of food safety. It is meant especially
for government functionaries, food industry workers and
catering industry workers.
Certificate Programmes in Early Childhood Special
Education Enabling Inclusion (Cerebral Palsy)
This programme, jointly offered with the National Centre
for Disability Studies, will equip the learner to work as
a member of an interdisciplinary team providing early
intervention to children up to six years of age in a
variety of settings. The settings would include homebased
intervention, centre-based intervention in special
and/or inclusion set-ups, and community-based
intervention set-ups. This programme is worth
24 credits, and is of one year duration.
Awareness-cum-Training Packages (for parents
and family members of children with
disabilities)
The Awareness-cum-Training Packages in Disability,
developed in collaboration with the Rehabilitation Council
of India, are a unique initiative for parents of the
disabled as well as community workers. A life-span
perspective has been adopted, with particular focus on
early childhood years. These packages seek to equip
parents, family members, community workers and others
with the requisite knowledge, understanding and skills,
to enable them to look after children with disabilities
better and to foster their overall development. The
following stand-alone Awareness-cum-Training Packages
are offered jointly with NCDS, through select NGOs
across the country.
NCD-001 Awareness-cum-Training Package in
Disability (Mental Retardation)
NCD-002 Awareness-cum-Training Package in
Disability (Visual Impairment)
NCD-003 Awareness-cum-Training Package in
Disability (Hearing Impairment)
NCD-004 Awareness-cum-Training Package in
Disability (Cerebral Palsy)
Project
An Agreement was signed between IGNOU, Ministry of
Panchayati Raj and UNDP on 23 rd October, 2007, to
undertake a Project on, ‘Capacity Building of PRIs
through a Multi Mode Training Intervention’. The
project was to cover six northern states including Bihar,
Haryana, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh
and Uttarakhand with the Indira Gandhi National
Open University (IGNOU) as the implementing agency.
The main objectives of the project are, to build the
capacities of elected members of Panchayats and
development functionaries, and to institutionalize
mechanisms to strengthen capacity building.
School of Education
Phone : 91-11-29535519
Fax : 91-11-29534227
Email : soe@ignou.ac.in
The School of Education`s mandate is to plan, develop
and launch academic programmes in Education as a
field of knowledge and an area of professional practice.
The School has developed programmes in diverse areas,
as detailed in the following page.
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Profile 2010