Adult and child: AIOU plans to set up literacy centres

Initiative is also aims at capacity building of faculty, staff

Adult and Child Literacy Centres will be set up at Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU) to promote education at primary and middle level.

The university’s Executive Council formally approved the establishment of these two centres which was announced on Monday by the AIOU Vice Chancellor Dr Shahid Siddiqui while inaugurating the second-phase of the adult literacy programme being participated by 30 employees of the varsity.

The varsity’s plan to set up two centres of higher education was announced on new year’s eve. First-phase of the three-month adult literacy programme was conducted last August and November. It enabled the illiterate employees to learn some basics of reading and writing, both in Urdu and English.



Dr Siddiqui said, through the Adult and Child Literacy Centres , the University will be able to expand literacy network in the country.  These will serve as a model to teach those who could not avail the schooling facility at their early age.Initially, the facility of adult literacy is available for the university’s employees at the main campus. Later, it would be made available at the university’s 44 regional offices. The adult literacy programme is aimed at improving their daily lives and make them more productive.

Published in The Express Tribune, January 2nd, 2018.