IGNOU to start community colleges soon

Updated on: Monday, May 25, 2009

The Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) is likely to start its community colleges in the country from this year. IGNOU vice chancellor Prof V.N. Rajasekharan Pillai said that the planning commission had identified community colleges mode strong enough to disseminate education to all segments of the society. These students would be able to choose from hundreds of academic and technical fields of studies, for their associate degrees, which would enable them to get transfer to regular colleges into the third year of the choice degree-courses to become graduates.

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