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IGNOU Award for Azim Premji Foundation

The Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) Wednesday conferred the Rajiv Gandhi International Prize for Technology in Education and Development on the Azim Premji Foundation.
The award instituted by the university in its silver jubilee year was presented to Azim Premji by Communications and Information Technology Minister Kapil Sibal at a ceremony.
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IGNOU launches three online programmes

The Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) on Friday invited applications for three online programmes — on nutrition, the Himalayan ecosystem and management of the Ganges river, a statement said.
The last date for submitting applications is Oct 15.
The ‘Appreciation Programme on Sustainable Management of Ganga’ aims to create awareness about the Ganga and its [...]

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IGNOU to offer electronics, IT courses‎

The Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), Pune to offer post graduate degree programmes in advanced areas of Information and Communication Technology and Electronics (ICTE) at the various C-DAC centres.
The objective of this MoU is to develop full/ flexi [...]

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IGNOU to launch diploma in Child Rights

IGNOU on Thursday announced it will soon launch a one-year diploma course on child rights. The oneyear diploma course, to be started by IGNOU’s School of Law (SOL) in collaboration with child rights NGO Prayas, is designed to offer specialised training on issues of the country’s juvenile justice system and child protection, IGNOU, said.
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President to lay foundation of IGNOU campus near Thiruvananthapuram

President Pratibha Patil would Wednesday lay the foundation for the Rs.300 crore south zone campus of the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) near this Kerala capital, a top official said.
“This zonal campus comes after the university decided to decentralize its operations into five zones. This south zone campus would look after the operations [...]

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IGNOU to honour the Dalai Lama with Doctorate

The Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) will host its 24th Convocation on  September  5, 2011 in the main campus of the university at Maidan Garhi.
Dr. (Mrs.) D. Purandeswari, Minister of State for Ministry of Human Resource and Development (MHRD) and Mr. E. Ahamed, Minister of State (MOS) for Ministry of External Affairs and [...]

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