Learn, Your Way! Open Minds, Open Education NIOS The Center for Social Initiative & Management (CSIM) is a business school for social work professionals. The Students of Batch 6 (Bangalore) are creating an awareness drive on an alternate system of education for all learners, Is life an exam? Is life about exams? Can a life be snuffed out because of failure in exams? Is there any way out??
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Learn, Your Way!
Open Minds, Open Education
NIOS
The Center for Social Initiative & Management (CSIM)is a business school for social work professionals. The Students of Batch 6 (Bangalore)
are creating an awareness drive on an alternate system of education for all learners,
Is life an exam?
Islife about exams?
Can a life be snuffed out because of failure in exams?
Is there any way out??
Learn, Your Way!
Open Minds, Open Education
NIOS
Open Schooling in India
Learn, Your Way!
Open Minds, Open Education
NIOS
What is NIOS ?
•NIOS is National Institute of Open Schooling
•It is the largest Open schooling System in the W
orld for Alternate Education
•Established in 1989 as National Open School, re-christened as NIOS in 2002
•1.4 Million students certified so far
•11 Regional centers, 1805 Academic Study centers, 917 VocationalStudy Centers
•23 Study Centers in Middle East & Nepal
Learn, Your Way!
Open Minds, Open Education
NIOS
What does it Offer?
•Self Paced learning
•Freedom to choose subjects as per one’s interests, needs, abilities
•Need based Vocational training
•Integration of academic & vocational
•Credit Accumulation facility over 5 years
•Facility of transfer of credits from other boards
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It is about Flexibility!
•Admission at any time during the year!
•Learn at our own pace!
•Absolutely no Age Limit!
•Evaluation twice a year!
•9 c
hances for appearing in e
xam
s o
ver a p
eriod o
f 5 y
ears
•Practical Training Center at choice of place!
•Choice of Medium!
•Flexibility of taking one vocational subject with Academics!
Learn, Your Way!
Open Minds, Open Education
NIOS
Courses & Programmes
Elementary Education
•Open Basic Education (OBE) at A level,Blevel and C level equivalent to Classes III, V, VIII
respectively of form
al Education
•Learners under OBE are 6-14 and above 14 years (Neo-literates)
Secondary Education
•Leading to Secondary School Certificate
•26 subject in seven mediums (Hindi, English, Urdu, Marathi, Telugu, Gujarati, Malayalam) for
Secondary Examinations
Senior Secondary Education
•Leading to Senior Secondary School Certificate
•19 subjects in Hindi, English and Urdu mediums for Senior Secondary Examinations
Learn, Your Way!
Open Minds, Open Education
NIOS
•Agriculture
•Home-Science and Hospitality Management
•Business and Commerce
•Computer Science and IT
•Engineering and Technology
•Health and Para-Medical
•Teacher Training
•Life Enrichment Courses
•Other Vocational Courses
Vocational Courses
•10 Vocational subjects in combination with Academic subjects at secondary stage.
•20 vocational subjects in combination with Academic subjects at Senior Secondary level.
•86 Vocational Education Programmes.
•On Demand examination system (at HQ, & Pune)
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NIOS
•Rural Poor and Urban Slum Dwellers
•Socially and Economically deprived
•Disabled or differently-abled
•Unemployed youth and Adults
•Employed and Partially Employed W
orkers
•Form
al School dropouts
•Women and Girls
•Migratory Population, Hill and Desert dwellers
•Life long learners
•Hobby Skill Learners
Open Schooling is for all Learners!
Who is it m
eant for?
Learn, Your Way!
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NIOS
•Karnataka University, Dharwad
•KuvempuUniversity, Shimoga
•National Law School of India University, Nagarbhavi,Bangalore