Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU) will end the two-year masters programme this year, the largest distance learning facility of the country said on Friday.
AIOU will offer admissions for Masters of Arts, Masters of Science and Masters of Education programmes for the last time in autumn 2020 semester, a statement issued by the university said on Friday.
May 13 deadline set for submitting AIOU assignments
As per a letter received from Higher Education Commission (HEC) all universities of Pakistan have been directed to stop offering two-year BA, BSc and MA, MSc programmes with the purpose to streamline the 16 and 18 years of schooling and to stop using of various titles for the 16 years and 18 years degree programmes such as BS/BSc (Hons)/MA/MSc and MPhil/ MS/MSc (Hons) respectively.
Hence, to have a common nomenclature system the Commission gave 2020 as deadline for last offering of MA, MSc and MEd programmes. According to AIOU Admissions Director Mian Muhammad Riaz, AIOU enrolls hundreds of thousand students in MA, MSc, and MEd programmes each semester. However, as a responsible public sector mega university of the country, AIOU will follow HEC rules and regulations in this regard and hence would stop offering of these programmes after autumn 2020 semester.
Published in The Express Tribune, July 18th, 2020.
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