GLOBAL
EDUCATION MARKET

SCOPE OF DISTANCE EDUCATION

After food, it is education that has posed as the second greatest challenge for modern India. It is a sector where the government should have pumped in more funds but unfortunately didn't. The consequences were disastrous. On the one hand we have some of the most outstanding men in fields such as literature, software technology, engineering, management, medical, biotechnology; on the other we also substantially inhabit some of the most illiterates in the globe today. What a striking contrast! But there is no point in shying away from the stark reality.

How can the problem of illiteracy be overcome? There are many who wish to Join in the mainstream of Distance Education. The fire to study and educate oneself is no doubt a healthy indication but that often gets drained due to lack of proper facilities. It was a stumbling block that was removed with the emergence of distance education.
Distance education has opened a new window of opportunities for those who craved for further studies. In a way it has helped numerous professionals, dropouts (school & college), housewives, etc to accomplish their unfinished dreams. It has immense relevance, particularly in a country like India, where pursuing education is a costly affair. Even we at APEX are already in the mainstream of disseminating the education information to all users at free of cost. We receive scores of career queries everyday, which again is a shining testimony of the great curiosity among the discerning users to know about the various options that education has to offer.

PRESENT SCENARIO
In India IGNOU was the first University to promote correspondence courses and set the trend of Distance Education where as many other Universities started these programs as horizon expanding and resource generating exercise.  Unfortunately, due to lack of guidelines and facilitation from the government, haphazard expansion has been observed.  Many of them have done a remarkable job in terms of deliverables but still there are miles to go.  Ultimately a statuary body established under the IGNOU, called DEC (Distance Education Council) took some initiatives in developing the required norms and guidelines. 

Thus DEC, Distance Education Council has framed guidelines, rules and regulations for a University to offer any course under its distance education program.  This will help to control the mushrooming of such programs and will make all to adhere to stringent norms.

Earlier, the only available mode of regular education used to deprive the working class, professionals, businessmen, housewives, students of weaker sections of the Society.  As per the data it is evident that a major section of our society does no enter the higher education because these students have to be breadwinners for their families.  There is high level of awareness and desire among the masses to improve the standards and levels of higher education.  Higher education is not only now for a limited category but is becoming mandatory to improve upon your social standing, basic qualification levels, and matrimonial qualifications and to enhance your job profile and its opportunities.

Since distance is no longer an impediment to pursue a course and complete them as most universities have study and examination centers in many cities, the interest in Distance Education is growing very rapidly in India and is expected to double up in the next decade.

APEX eLearning Technologies will serve the purpose of making it easy for students to choose courses in Distance Education along with full details of Universities offering them. The whole purpose of this is to provide cost-effective, quality education to large sections of our population including those living in remote and far-flung areas.
Most universities of India also impart distance education to meet the growing demand. We have introduced the Online Campus – eLearning Point for the benefit of our users. In the due process we have tried our best to incorporate all the courses of all the major universities and institutions offering the distance education. The task has never been easy but we have left no stone unturned in giving a total package for our Business Partner as well as students.