Objectives


The following are the general objectives of Open Universities:

1. To help those who want to update their knowledge while on job or in service
2. To provide educational opportunities at the UG and PG level to those groupof people who have been precluded from achieving their goals;
3. To complement the educational efforts of the existing universities and do notcompete with them;
4.To make it a flexible and an open system.
5.To equalise educational opportunities by streamlining access to higher education;
6. To provide educational opportunities to those adults who would like to have
7.To exploit the tremendous potential of ICT to organise educational programmes effectively and successfully
8.To stand as an innovative educational hub to cater to the variegated needs ofthe diverse learners
9.To provide quality/standard education to all.

10) To provide large-scale, mini-mum expenditure for adult and social education.
11) Stop the tide of formal university admissions.
 12) To provide learners with educational facilities in their own homes and at their own jobs and at a time that is convenient for them.
 13) Fostering national integration.
 14) To promote the culture of the Indian people.
15) Remedy the educational imbalance created by the formal system. The system of Open University can be a viable and excellent alternative to the formal system.
16) It can meet the nation's growing needs for manpower and socio-economic needs through vocational training as provided in Hyderabad.

                             The New Education Policy (1986) clearly acknowledged that the Open University instrument should be carefully developed and extended with caution. Open University facilities should be expanded to increase higher education opportunities and use the tool to democratize the system and strengthen the nation's socialist base. The new educational-tional technology has tremendous potential and to cover up distance an open system has its own resilience. The action program (1986) approved by Parliament on 22.8.1986 admits to the development of an open university system course network. This would mean that a student who joins an open university would take courses from another open university