IGNOU to Offer New French Language Courses
Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), Embassy of France and Universite Stendhal – Grenoble3 have collaborated in order to start two new courses in French language. The two new academic programmes being mentioned include Certificat d’Enseignement de Français Langue Etrangere (CEFLE) and Diplome d’Enseignement de Francais Langue Etrangere (DEFLE).
An MoU was signed between U.S Tolia, Registrar (Admin), IGNOU, Daniel Rignault, Attachee for cooperation in education, French Embassy, and Mme Dumasy, Hon’ble VC, University Stendhal, Grenoble III, in New Delhi on December 6.
The main objective of this MoU is to design and develop the following academic programmes for the development of human resources: Teaching of French as a Methodology Course in the B.Ed. programme of IGNOU; Certificat d’Enseignement de Fran ais Langue Etrang re [CEFLE] and Dipl me d’Enseignement de Fran ais Langue Etrang re [DEFLE].
French Embassy will fund the Orientation Programme for the course writers for developing the Self-Learning Materials.
IGNOU would conduct expert committee meetings for the French methodology course in the B.Ed. Programme, CEFLE and DEFLE Programmes in collaboration with the French Embassy.


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