Annual Report 2010-11 - The National Institute of Open Schooling

National Institute of Open Schooling
for upward mobility of students from the school level
to the university level; creating a wider network of
study centres and developing a mechanism for sharing
of resources so as to provide increased access to
education, especially in the remote rural, tribal and
disadvantaged areas in the country; to adopt/adapt
relevant courses offered by both institutions,
particularly in the areas of Vocational Education and
Training (VET) for expansion of skill development
programmes and to develop strategies for joint
certification of such programmes as per the strength
and mandate of the partnership institutions.
9.10 Introduction of new need-based
vocational courses on collaborative
platform
For the last thirteen years the enrolment figures in
vocational courses have been more or less static. One
of the reasons for the static enrollment may be that
the Courses are not according to the market demand.
Therefore NIOS endeavour is to review all its existing
courses and develop new courses which are need
based and help an individual to become self employed
or to get employment.
It has been decided to develop these courses with
the help NGO/Private player on Public Private
Partnership basis. Some of the sectors/ segments
which have the huge unmet needs are Automobile/
auto component, Electronics hardware, Textiles and
garments, Leather and leather goods, Gem and
Jewellery, Building and construction, Food
processing, ITs or software services, ITES – BPO
Services, Tourism hospitality and travel trade,
Healthcare services. Banking/Insurance and finance.
Vocational Education Department has drafted the
Expression of Interest (EOI) for this purpose and had
invited the proposals from the Private organizations.
The EOI appeared in the newspaper on 8 th Feb 2011.
In response to the EOI, Vocational Education
Department received 105 proposals.
9.11 Setting up of Libraries in all Regional
Centres
In a new initiative to set up libraries in all Regional
Centres, seed money of Rs. 50,000/- each was
granted to 14 Regional Centres/sub-Regional Centres
to purchase books and journals. A suggestive list of
books/journals was sent by the Library at the
Headquarters.
9.12 New State Open Schools established
with the support of NIOS
In the year of reporting, the notification of the
establishment of Gujarat State Open School has been
issued. The setting up of Bihar State Open School is
in process and it is expected that the notification would
be soon issued.
9.13 Establishment of Technical Support
group of RMSA at NIOS
To build up a constant linkage with the Rashtriya
Madhyamik Siksha Abhiyan - the flagship programme
of the Government of India for universalisation of
secondary education-an office of the Technical
Support group has been setup in the premises of the
Regional Centre of NIOS at Sector-62, NOIDA,
U.P.
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Annual Report 2010-11