About Us
About Us
There are a number of open schooling boards running in India that provide an opportunity to students to pursue education in spite of financial hurdles, familial issues, and a variety of problems. Open schooling Boards provide a vast opportunity to students who perhaps cannot afford or dedicate to regular schooling. However, as education is the basic right for any citizen, and it must not be denied due to any reason, as education is the utmost priority for any person and thus we have established the Delhi Institute of Open Schooling. Its mandate is to “Reach the Unreached” in terms of Education & Skills, in India, through Open & Distance learning modes. It provides a special focus on marginalized socio-economic and religious sections for the purpose of their integration with the mainstream through relevant educational and skill development interventions.
Delhi Institute of Open Schooling is an autonomous body which is established for the development of education under the guidelines of the national education policy and programme of action 1992, Govt of India. The prime objective of the board is to extend help and support to the weaker section of society, with special emphasis on girls’ education. It has been established under Act XXI of 1860 of govt. of India. Delhi Institute of Open schooling gives a platform to those who have a thirst for books and yet couldn’t pursue regular schooling. DIOS creates a space where one can complete their education and create a structured foundation for himself/herself which will help him/her in the outer world. This institute of open schooling is passionate and dedicated to education, and our aim is to reach the downtrodden section of society.
Delhi Institute of Open Schooling
Vision and Mission
The mission of DIOS is to provide modern open and flexible, life related educational opportunities to those who cannot attend a regular school with a special focus on marginalized socio-religious groups. The mission is to increase access with equity in education, ensure social justice and to universalize high quality education.
Our Vision is to create a country which values education and stands for every such person who wants to educate himself. As an organization we hope to see our country educated and enlightened.
Objective
- To contribute to the national goal of universalization of education through a high quality system of open schooling
- To reach out of disadvantaged and marginalized groups such as girls, women, scheduled castes, schedules tribes, minorities, differently abled, rural persons, backward sections, dalits, nomadic persons and others who need a flexible system of education
- To design and develop courses at secondary and senior secondary level that would be offered through open schooling.
- To plan, design and develop curricular and courses in vocational areas in self-learning format in keeping with the ideas of work-cantered education
- To function as a Board of Education and certify courses both academic and vocational offered through open schooling to promote equivalent education
- To utilize distance education modalities for optimum benefit for those enrolled through open schooling including designing and develop self-learning materials in print, audio and video format.
- To develop, support systems using e-governance models for ensuring quality education including maintenance of data base on Open Learning
- To create a synergy between conventional schooling/ university and ODL systems so that quality of education remains equivalent and Open School becomes a feeder to the University system.
- To collaborate with associated educational and vocational institutions at the state levels for example SIERT, SIFT, SCERT, Board of Secondary Education, Colleges of Education, Polytechnics, Shramik Vidyapeeths, Krishi Vigyan Kendra’s, etc., for developing and delivering relevant academic and skill oriented courses.
- To collaborate with national and international agencies like National Institute of Open Schooling, Indira Gandhi National Open University, Commonwealth of Learning, UNESCO, UNFPA, UNICEF and others for continuing efforts in improvement of quality and standards of distance education processes and materials.