Prof M Aslam, Vice Chancellor, Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) recently announced that the university will soon be opening its study centre in collaboration with the Zambian Open University (ZOU) in Zambia for three MBA programmes.

Collaboration in MBA programme, Master in Education Management and Educational Economics are the fields in which ZOU desires to open an IGNOU study centre.

Prof Aslam stated that though no Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) has been signed as yet but a mutual agreement has been arrived at with Prof Dickson Mwansa, Vice Chancellor of ZOU and Bwalya Lyapa Nondo, First Secretary, Republic of Zambia.

Both the delegates visited the university headquarters in the capital to explore possibility of a future collaboration. Prof Aslam briefed them about the university through a presentation. He apprised them with the fact that IGNOU is functioning abroad with 82 partner institutions across 43 countries.