| Education has to be made accessible to all, irrespective of financial, social and psychological conditions. People engaged in various earnings want to get education and lifelong education is needed for motivated learners. The govt. arranged a multiple education system and that is obviously a great step for this purpose. The formal education system has been playing an elitist role through ages. It has been realized that this system cannot make universalisation of education. The conventional education system alone cannot meet the needs and demands of higher education. Moreover, it is full restriction like age, admission, qualification and duration of courses, curriculum, examination system etc. With the tremendous pressure of formal education system, distance education is playing a great role now-a-days. It is a powerful instrument of equalization of educational opportunities to broaden the base of human capital formation, mainly because of its innovative and flexible characteristics that advocate a learner centered approach for teaching learning unlike the teacher centered conventional system. The students who marginally miss the opportunity to get entry into some of the best regular institutions and they entry in the higher education into this window. |