Distance Education Programs:-
Established on 3rd of March 1976 Distance Education aims
at diversifying and providing educational opportunities
far beyond the close confines of a classroom and making
them available to all those who aspire and endeavour for
education. It is based on the philosophy that anything,
which can be learnt in the regular classroom, can equally
be learnt through distance education. It is an innovative
system, which is academically sound and economically viable
and as such, has proved to be a blessing for those who have
no access to education.
Motivated by the desire to provide education at the doorsteps
of the learners, University of Jammu established the Directorate
of Distance Education, (then known as Institute of Correspondence
Education) in March, 1976. The courses offered by the Directorate
are intended to cater to the following:
Students who have had to discontinue their education in
the regular system for various reasons; students in far
flung and inaccessible hilly areas of the state; the students
who were not accommodated in the mainstream education institutions;
in-service persons; women and individuals who regard education
as a life time activity.
In recent times there had been stupendous increase in the
educational needs of the country. Jammu and Kashmir State
has not remained exception to this phenomenon. Despite being
affected by virulent terrorism over the period of last one
and a half decades, there has been a progressive increase
in the demand for higher education in the state. Because
of inherent factors and constraints, conventional education
institutions were/are unable to cope up with the augmented
demand for higher education. The DDE has partly helped to
cope up with this demand in the Jammu region.
As often now, the DDE is offering a number of postgraduate
and undergraduate courses. Besides traditional courses,
it is imparting professional courses such as Master of Education,
Bachelor of Education and Postgraduate Diploma in Business
Administration. In the current session, it has launched
Postgraduate course in Fisheries. This is a job oriented
course and first of its kind through distance mode of education
in the country.
Currently, the DDE has study centres one each in muffasil
govt degree colleges - Kathua, Poonch, Rajouri, Bhaderwah,
Kishtwar and Doda. By these centres, the DDE has truly brought
the facility of higher education to the doorsteps of the
distance learners of the remote rural, backward and inaccessible
hilly areas of the Jammu region. In the immediate future,
the DDE has planned to introduce PG course in English, postgraduate
diploma courses in English language teaching and computer
applications. These courses will especially serve the educational
needs of the people of the Jammu region. Plans are also
afoot to adopt multi media instructional pattern. Once it
is accomplished, it will greatly enrich the learning environment
in the region.
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Director Distance Education
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