AIOU extends giveaway march offer to some-more people
Prisoners, visually marred and lady dropouts will be means to relief services. PHOTO: FILE
ISLAMABAD: Days after announcing giveaway fee for people who are transgender, a Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU) on Friday pronounced it was expanding that offer to some-more marginalised segments of a society.
In a matter released on Friday, a varsity pronounced that they will be fluctuating giveaway extended educational services to prisoners, a visually impaired, womanlike dropouts and members of a transgender community.
“It has been motionless that range of preparation for these categories will be serve increasing in sequence to move them into a educational net and assistance them have a important life in a society,” a matter said. It combined that a university will alone continue to yield scholarships and fee-waiver to students who are incompetent to means their studies.
AIOU VC Dr Shahid Siddiqui hoped that a students descending underneath these categories can enroll themselves with for a new educational year.
He reminded that a final date for acknowledgment to this outcome is Oct 10 with a favoured late-fee.
The vice-chancellor pronounced that a AIOU has been providing giveaway preparation from matriculation all a approach to PhD turn to a disabled and visually marred students and with jail inmates. Moreover, students are also supposing with computerised comforts to assist their learning.
Talking about giveaway preparation for people who are transgender, Siddiqui hoped that it will extremely urge a vital customary of a transgender community.
Published in The Express Tribune, Oct 7th, 2017.
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