For the 105 million children who drop out of school every year due to various socio-economic reasons, 10 million differently-abled children excluded from the mainstream education system and 240 million adult illiterates denied access to secondary school, NIOS is a boon.
What is NIOS?
The National
Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS) is the Board of Education
for Distance education, under the Union Government of India. It was
established by the Ministry of Human Resource Development of
the Government of India in 1989. Its main
objective was to provide education inexpensively to remote areas.
Through
a government resolution of September 14, 1990 published in the Gazette of India
on October 20, 1990, NIOS was vested with the authority to register, examine
and certify students up to pre-degree level programmes.
It had a cumulative
enrollment of about 1.5 million students from 2004–2009 at Secondary and Senior
Secondary levels and enrolls about 350,000 students annually which makes it the
largest open schooling system in the world.
Who opts for NIOS?
Many like you, outstanding
sports personalities, Cinema stars, specially talented persons looking for
special curriculum (like painting , home Science, Computers ), people with
domestic liabilities, working in Govt and Private institutions, those in remote
areas ( where academic and Vocational Institutions are not available), women
restricted of free movements, feeding mothers, nuns ,
priests, those not studied Science group
in Higher Secondary and wanting to do Medicine/Engg/Pharma/Nursing etc are a
few to name.
How is NIOS advantageous to children with
Learning difficulties and other disabilities?
India
hosts an estimated 10 million physically and mentally challenged children with
an estimated 80 percent suffering learning disabilities. Given the internal
curricular rigidity of national and state boards, NIOS is an attractive
alternative study and examinations option for them. Therefore unsurprisingly,
an estimated 3,000 special schools countrywide are affiliated with the NIOS
board.
The
great advantage of NIOS is that it enables every enrolled student to study at
her own pace and choose subjects of his/ her interest.
Students
writing the class XII exam can select from a menu of 21 subjects, of which they
need to clear five subjects. The students can choose to complete small
portions of the coursework every three months by attending exams that are held
twice a year — in April and October — and students have nine chances to clear
the class X/XII exams during a liberal five-year period.
Subjects
include: English, Mathematics, History, Geography, economics, Physics,
Chemistry, Biology, Psychology, Political science, Painting, Mass communication,
Home science and so on.
Also
many relaxations are provided to support children based on the disability. Visit
the link below for various relaxations provided:
Thus NIOS is a very flexible form of education as well.
D.K.’s Learning Centre is one among many institutions where
school subjects are taught using remedial techniques that best work with
children based on the needs and difficulties.
Madhu
(name changed) is one such child with dyslexia who was denied mainstream
schooling because of her disability. It was only because of her supportive
parents she was put for NIOS. She attended classes in D.K.’s where tailor-made
techniques were followed to teach subjects. To everyone’s surprise, Madhu scored 80% in her 10th board exam via NIOS. Now Madhu is confidently
preparing for her 12th board exams.
Like
Madhu, there are many students who are pursuing their board exams with support
from D.K.’s. Five children are already pursuing their higher education – one
pursuing Bachelors degree, one in Hotel management, one doing diploma in animation
and so on.
NIOS’
class X and XII certification is officially recognised by the Association of
Indian Universities for admission into the country’s 509 universities and
31,000 colleges.
Moreover
by offering an alternative learning system to differently abled children, an
inclusive school education system is created. With the introduction of
vocational education programmes in 1993, NIOS is now in the forefront of
preparing youth without formal college degrees with skills for the workplace.
NIOS
primarily focuses on content that is practical and life oriented, not theoretical
as in the curriculums of other exam boards. NIOS certification is
officially on a par with CBSE, CISCE and state exam boards.
Can I take admission in
any course of NIOS along with the course am undergoing in a
School/College/University?
Of course you can.
Courses offered by NIOS
NIOS offer the
following courses:
- Open Basic Education Programme,
Which includes following three levels courses
- OBE 'A' Level Course—Equivalent to
class III
- OBE 'B' Level Course—Equivalent to
class V
- OBE 'C' Level Course—Equivalent to
class VIII
- Secondary Course—Equivalent to
class X
- Senior Secondary Course—Equivalent
to class XII
- Vocational Education Courses
Thus it is vital
that the National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS) becomes a household name
and national success which best supports children with disabilities.
REFER:
http://www.nios.ac.in/
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