Higher Education under KKHSOU Study Centres: A Study on Dibrugarh Town, Dibrugarh, Assam

Abstract

Dr. Manashi Gogoi Borgohain -   Abstract: Higher education is the topmost stage of formal education and more importantly, it is concerned with the processes in the more advanced phases of human learning. Higher education is meant for the most superior part of the influential impact on development. Higher education empowers the individual with necessary skills and competence for actuating important personal and social goals and thereby contributing to the social development and a means for achieving wider social privation. Distance Education under Krishna Kanta Handique State Open University (KKHSOU) is an innovation of education to meet ever increasing and diversified educational demand of higher education. KKHSOU has been formulating academic programmes to lead educational opportunities to the doorsteps of all. But no sufficient research study has been carried out in this area. Therefore, the investigators intend to carry out a study to find out the actual picture and to make the common people aware of the opportunities. Out of the 3 study centers of Dibrugarh town, Assam, one study centre i.e  Nandalal Borgohain City College, Dibrugarh Study Centre as a sample has  been  selected  through  Purposive Sampling  Technique. The study reveals that out of the total enrolments in BA and MA the total enrolment is not increasing, but the enrolment number of female is more than that of male. The B.A. and M.A. programmes under KKHSOU have been playing a significant role for offer...