38 students get degrees at convocation ceremony of Punjab University
correspondence school.
As many as 38
meritorious students received the degrees during the convocation. A large
number of students received prizes and many amongst them were girls.
University
School of Open Learning (USOL), Panjab University (PU), celebrated its third
Annual Convocation and 43rd Annual Prize Distribution Function on Tuesday.
As
many as 38 meritorious students received the degrees during the convocation. A
large number of students received prizes and many amongst them were girls.
Prizes
were awarded for academic excellence, creative writing, public speaking and
recitation.
In its academic journey since 1971, USOL has
been catering to all sections of the society and has as many as forty courses
which includes eighteen post-graduate, eight undergraduate and many
professional and certificate courses. USOL now has more than 22,000 students on
its rolls. Padma Shri recipient, PU Gyan Rattan Awardee and a former
Vice-Chancellor of GNDU, Amritsar, Professor JS Grewal delivered the
convocation address. In his address, he traced the illustrious history of the
open and distance learning systems at both the national and international
levels.
Addressing the convocation, PU Vice
Chancellor, Professor Arun Kumar Grover, said that the optimum use of technology
and the introduction of state of the art facilities would certainly double the
number of students enrolled for USOL. He said that the open learning was the
need of the hour and it could enable the peer group of open learning students
to interact in a healthy way.
Founder Vice-Chancellor of the Central
University of Punjab, Professor Jai Rup Singh was the Chief Guest at the annual
prize distribution function.
Professor Jai Rup Singh described USOL as a
Mini University catering to various needs of different sections of society. He
analysed the connecting links between the rise in population, the increase in
the number of colleges and universities but the decline in the quality graph of
education.
He traced this decline to the decreasing
grant from the state and the rise of commercial centres of education run by
private managements. He advocated the motto of each one, teach one.
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