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Skill for Empowerment: Break the Cage: Challenges for Open and Distance Learning
(2013-11)
Bangladesh has made some great strides in promoting gender equality in the education sector by managing to close the gender gap in gross and net enrolment ratios in primary and secondary education. However, this success ...
Disparities among male and female in Developing Belize: Opportunities for Open and Distance Learning to address urgent social, academic, and gender inequality
(2013-11)
Historically in Belize, Central America, women are perceived as child bearers, teachers, nurses and those who assume less dominant roles. Even as women are expected to assume traditional responsibilities, national data ...
Can Recruitment, Success, Gender Equality and Retention Rates be Enhanced in Vocational Fisheries Education with a Shift in Delivery Mode to ODL
(2013-11)
Bangladesh Open University has been offering a certificate programme on fisheries namely Certificate in Pisciculture and Fish Processing (CPFP) through its School of Agriculture and Rural Development from January 1998, ...
Study on Predicting ‘at-risk’ Female Learners in BOU-Open School: Who succeeds and Why?
(2013-11)
The Open School of Bangladesh Open University (BOU-OS) launched, using self-learning materials, face-to-face tutorials, and ICT (radio-TV broadcasts, SMS technology), its operation in 1995 through enrolling learners in the ...
Girls Step Towards Empowerment: Ladder to Hope through Gender Lens:Bangladesh Open University
(2013-11)
Women’s access to education must be treated as their fundamental right. And it is only through education that they would get the chance to prepare themselves in order to play their roles in nation’s social, economic and ...
Flexible, Open and Distance Learning: An Enabler or Barrier to Women’s Empowerment through Education and Learning
(2013-11)
This paper will address the potential of Flexible, Open and Distance Learning (FODL) as a modality not only to deliver education equitably and equally, but one that removes barriers to women’s learning and enhances ...
Open School and Girls’ Education in Hill Districts of Bangladesh
(2013-11)
Women empowerment is identified as an essential component for the progress of a nation. One of the main tools for women empowerment is education. In Bangladesh, many girl children cannot join schools and along with that, ...
Problems of women’s education and role of Open University (Bangladesh perspective)
(2013-11)
This paper deals with the multifarious problems of educating girls and women of Bangladesh and shows how ODL and ICT can work to address these problems. Education is the light to which everybody has equal right. Men and ...
Bridging The Gender Gap Through The use of Open Distance Learning (ODL)
(2013-11)
Gender equity in education has been an issue of concern both in Kenya and internationally. Although tremendous success has been made in attaining Education For All (EFA) in Sub Saharan Africa and Kenya in particular, gender ...
Open and Distance Education: A Contribution to Poverty Alleviation and Empowerment of Women?
(2010-11)
In Nigeria, as elsewhere in the world, Open and Distance Learning (ODL) is used as a major vehicle to break the three vectors - access, quality and cost – that has constrained education time immemorial in order to improve ...