Bhubaneswar, Aug. 18 -- The Odia course materials and textbooks for the Diploma in Early Childhood Care and Education (DECE), offered by the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), were formally released today.
Deputy Chief Minister Pravati Parida and Higher Education Minister Suryabanshi Suraj jointly unveiled the course materials at a function here.
Earlier, the DECE course was available only in English, Hindi and Tamil. With this launch, the programme will now also be offered in Odia.
The Higher Education Department of the Odisha Government had signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with IGNOU on June 9 to introduce various IGNOU courses in the Odia language.
Under this MoU, several programmes-including undergraduate and ...