ISLAMABAD: Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU) has sent text books to about 80 percent of its students of Matric and FA’s programs, who were enrolled in Autumn, 2019’s semester. Rest of the students of these programs will get the books within one-week, this was stated by Director Admissions, while briefing the meeting of senior officers of the University on the books’ mailing arrangement. “We are going to expedite the process, also dispatching the books to the post-graduate students from the next week, in line with the directions of the Vice Chancellor Professor Dr. Zia-Ul-Qayyum. The University’s Mailing Department took some extra measures to undertake the job on fast-track basis, through use of ‘state-of-the-art’ technology. This aimed at giving maximum study-period to the students, enabling them to timely complete their academic assignments. “We are following an annual academic calendar in doing this huge job, providing text books to around seven lakh students for one semester,” the officials said. This is for the first-time in the AIOU’s history that books were being made available to the students, even when the admission process (autumn 2019 semester) was going on. Meanwhile, the University is also in process of digitizing its overall working, so as to facilitate the students in the study process, providing them online study material. INP
