National Institute of Open Schooling

National Institute of Open Schooling
NIOS logo
Abbreviation NIOS
Formation 3 November 1989 (1989-11-03)
Type Governmental Board of Education
Headquarters Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India
Official language
Chairman
 Prof C B Sharma
Parent organisation
 Ministry of Human Resource Development
Website www.nios.ac.in

The National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS), formerly National Open School, (name changed in 2002) is the board of education under the Union Government of India. It was established by the Ministry of Human Resource Development of the Government of India in 1989[1] to provide education to remote areas under the motive to increase literacy and aimed forward for flexible learning. The NIOS is a national board that administers examinations for Secondary and Senior Secondary examinations of open schools similar to the CBSE and the CISCE to increase literacy and provide education to rural and urban areas. It also offers vocational courses after the high school. Despite being established for distance education, NIOS provides a formal and regular secondary and Senior Secondary program equivalent to CBSE.

It had a cumulative enrollment of about 1.5 million students from 2004 to 2009 at secondary and senior secondary levels and enrolls about 350,000 students annually which makes it the largest open schooling system in the world.[2]

International collaboration and overseas centres

The NIOS collaborates with the Commonwealth of Learning (COL) and UNESCO.[3] It also has study centres for Indian expatriates in the United Arab Emirates, Oman, Kuwait, Nepal, Canada, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Australia, United Kingdom, New Zealand, Malaysia, Singapore and the United States of America.[4]

Courses offered

NIOS offer the following courses:

  • Open Basic Education Programme, which includes following three levels courses
    • OBE 'A' Level course—Equivalent to class III
    • OBE 'B' Level course—Equivalent to class V
    • OBE 'C' Level course—Equivalent to class VIII
  • Secondary Course—Equivalent to class X
  • Senior Secondary Course—Equivalent to class XII
  • Vocational Education Courses
  • Life enrichment programmes
  • D.EL.ED. course

Examinations

The public examinations are held twice a year in April–May and October–November on dates fixed by the NIOS. However, one is also eligible to appear through the On Demand Examinations at Secondary Level and Senior Secondary level in those subjects only in which candidates have taken admission in NIOS for subject wise learning.[5] Results of the public examinations are announced usually six weeks after the last date of examinations.

Regional offices of the board

Regional officesJurisdiction/States covered
Delhi IEast Delhi, North Delhi, North East Delhi, North West Delhi, Jhajjar, Gautam Budh Nagar and Ghaziabad
Delhi IISouth Delhi, West Delhi, South West Delhi, Central Delhi, New Delhi, Gurgaon and Faridabad
BengaluruKarnataka
HyderabadAndhra Pradesh, Telangana and Karnataka
PuneMaharashtra and Goa, Daman and Diu
ChandigarhHaryana (excluding Faridabad, Gurgaon and Jhajjar), Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Jammu and Kashmir and Chandigarh
KolkataSikkim, West Bengal and Andaman & Nicobar Islands and Subcentre Bhubaneswar
BhubaneswarOdisha
KochiKerala
ChennaiTamil Nadu and Pondicherry
PatnaBihar and Jharkhand
JaipurRajasthan
GandhinagarGujarat,Ahmedabad,Vadodara,Rajkot,Jamnagar
BhopalMadhya Pradesh
RaipurChhattisgarh
GuwahatiAssam,Meghalaya,Nagaland,Tripura,Mizoram,Arunachal Pradesh,Manipur

See also

References

  1. ↑ "National Institute Of Open Schooling". Nos.org. 19 February 2012. Archived from the original on 7 March 2012. Retrieved 3 March 2012.
  2. ↑ "pub_PS_OpenSchooling_web" (PDF). Col.org. Retrieved 2015-07-03.
  3. ↑ "International Centre for Training in Open Schooling". Nos.org. 1945-11-16. Retrieved 2012-03-03.
  4. ↑ Majumdar Sahil, Pallavi (15 October 2002). "Open school for UAE expats". Times of India. Retrieved 2013-07-09.
  5. ↑ "Evaluation System". NIOS. Retrieved 2013-07-09.
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