Open University

The government of India appointed an eight-member working group on open university in 1974.

In 1985, the Union Government made a policy statement for establishment of a national open university.

At its most demanding, it's an open university of the 18th century.

Some open universities encourage older adults to apply, whether they were good at school or not.

It had started out as an open university, with 7,094 people for the first academic year.

Education by open universities is often off-campus and on a correspondence basis.

It's an eccentric open university, with a curriculum put together by a committee of mad professors.

It started as an open university, with 7,094 students enrolled in its first academic year studying law and politics.

It was the first open university in Southeast Asia to use a distance teaching/learning system.

It was therefore appropriate that the state realized the need of an open university.