History
Allama Iqbal Open University was set up under a demonstration of parliament in 1974 as a pioneer in non-formal and separation instruction in Pakistan. It was then the world's second open college; the main such college was set up in the UK in 1969. Presently there are 17 super colleges of the world and Allama Iqbal gives a chance to working individuals to upgrade their capabilities without surrendering their occupations or homes. In Pakistan separation training is especially fit to the female populace as it offers them a chance to learn at home. Likewise, individuals living in the ancestral and distant a long way from customary instructive establishments, additionally have a chance to be taught. In this college, the period for finishing their declarations and degrees is connected with understudies' very own pace and comfort. The AIOU uses every single imaginable vehicle for guidance including correspondence materials, radio and TV, satellite transmission, web based educating, non-
communicate media, instructional exercise guidance and gathering preparing workshops and the sky is the limit from there.
The AIOU began with five courses and an enrolment of under 1,000 of every 1975-76, and it has over the previous years extended every which way. At present the absolute number of projects delivered is 116, and courses, 1,377. In the year 2007-08, understudy enrolment arrived at 1,031,951 and course enrolment to 2,982,420, out of which the female interest rate has been 51 percent. Directly four arrangements of workforce in 36 scholarly divisions and an Institute of Mass Education offer a wide scope of courses from utilitarian non-credit to M.Phil/Ph.D level. At present the college offers 19 Ph.D courses, 192 at M.Phil/MS, 516 Masters level, 67 in Teachers Education, 282 Bachelor/Diploma, 80 Higher Secondary School, 30 Secondary School, 12 Women's Middle Education, and 114 Functional Non-Credit/Women's Basic Education courses.
The University communicate 264 radio and 382 T.V programs in 2005-06. As of late the college has begun to communicate instructive projects on FM Radio at 91.6 MHz. The University has additionally settled a video-conferencing system in seven select areas to lead classes online for Computer Science courses.
The local system, at present, comprises of 36 Regional Campuses/Centers with 82 low maintenance provincial planning workplaces all through the nation. The college has at this point set up 1,274 examination focuses annually as a team with formal instructive foundations and study focuses with most recent PC lab offices for the understudies concentrating in the fields of science, innovation or potentially PC sciences in a joint effort with private organizations of high notoriety in every single significant city of the nation also.
Roughly 950 assessment focuses are set up yearly at Tehsil and District level with coordination of provincial system to encourage the understudies. Up to 2007, 1,121,382 degrees, recognitions and endorsements have been granted. Directly the endorsed posts of the college number 1,899 including academicians, authoritative and overhauling/supporting staff. About 1.6 million books other than other associated materials are printed and provided to the understudies yearly. The Central Library of the University is furnished with an accumulation of more than 114,000 books. The yearly repeating spending plan of the college for the Year 2007-08 is Rs.1921.848 million, of which the college creates 87 percent from its own assets. At present the blessing asset of the University is assessed at Rs.2.4000 billion.
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