Profile 2010 - IGNOU

to serve as a centre of corporate excellence
for corporate governance and business ethics;
to serve as a centre for promoting cooperative
endeavour and interaction between research scholars
and institutions engaged in corporate education,
research and training in India and abroad.
Towards fulfilling these objectives, during 2009, the
Centre has entered into MoUs with the following:
1. Cochin International Aviation Services Ltd. (CIAL
Academy, Cochin)
2. Future Learning & Development Ltd., Mumbai
3. Centum Learning Ltd. (A Bharti Associate), New
Delhi
4. Core Projects & Technologies Ltd., Mumbai
5. WLC College India Ltd., New Delhi
6. Institute of Habitat Education, Trivandrum
7. Institute of Rail Transport, New Delhi.
Negotiations are on for designing of business specific
programmes with the Food Safety and Standards Authority
of India (FSSAI), New Delhi and Indian Society for
Training & Development (ISTD), New Delhi, among
others.
The Centre is also launching a one-year Post Graduate
Diploma in Corporate Governance in collaboration with
the Institute of Company Secretaries of India.
Centre for Extension Education (CEE)
Phone : 011-29534104
Fax : 011-29534104
E-mail : nairmc@gmail.com
This Centre was established as the nodal centre of all
extension education activities being undertaken by the
University. The objective of CEE is to design and
develop extension education programmes for the benefit
of the population at the grass-roots level. The programmes
developed by it at present are:
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Ph.D. Programmes in (i) Extension Education, and
(ii) Community Outreach.
Certificate in Lifelong Learning (CELL).
Certificate in Communication Skills for BPO, ITeS
and Related Sectors (BCSSI).
Certificate in Commonwealth Youth Programme/
Diploma in Commonwealth Youth Programme
(CCYP/DCYP).
Teaching of Mother Tongue to Non-Resident Learners
living/working outside their home states. Around
90 non-resident Malayalam teachers were trained
under this project. Similar programmes have
been initiated in Gujarati and Tamil.
Integrated Parental Awareness Programmes: Under
this programme, training of teachers, awareness
programme for parents, developing teaching-learning
materials, video documenting of model classes,
distributing learning kits, etc., are undertaken.
Distance Education Council (DEC)
Phone : 011-29533340, 011-29571824
Fax : 011-29536668
E-mail : dec@ignou.ac.in
The Distance Education Council (DEC) is an apex body
for the Open and Distance Learning (ODL) system in
the country. It is empowered, under Statute 28 of the
IGNOU Act, to act as an apex body for the ODL system
in the country. It is responsible for promotion,
coordination and maintenance of standards of the ODL
system. The Vice Chancellor of IGNOU is the ex-officio
Chairperson of DEC. Presently, there are: one National
Open University (IGNOU), thirteen State Open
Universities (SOUs) and more than 200 Distance
Education Institutes (DEIs) functioning under
conventional universities and private/autonomous
institutions that come under its purview.
The DEC has initiated a number of activities to fulfil its
objectives. These include:
Developmental, technical and academic assistance
to state governments for setting up new State Open
Universities (SOUs) and Distance Education
Institutions (DEIs) under conventional universities
as well as private/autonomous institutions.
Development grants to SOUs and DEIs for
development of infrastructure, development of quality
self-learning materials, appointment of academic staff,
research and development and training of staff,
development of learner support services,
computerization of all operations and networking,
library facilities, development of online resources,
technology enabled education, etc.
Un-assigned grants to SOUs for:
o Staff development,
o Organisation of seminars/conferences and
o Publication of reports, research papers etc.
Travel grants to faculty of SOUs and DEIs for
participation in national and international seminars
and conferences;
Research grants for promotion of R&D activities in
the priority areas of ODL system;
Profile 2010