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IGNOU Community College

Community Colleges are an alternative system of education which aims to empower individuals through appropriate skill development leading to gainful employment in collaboration with the local Industry and Community.

For the first time in India, Community College system is a dynamic alternative route to acquire IGNOU certified education which connects one with gainful employment.

The IGNOU Community College Scheme was launched on July 04, 2009. Under this scheme a community College can get registered for offering academic Programmes at the levels of Certificate, Diploma & Associate Degree. IGNOU Community college offer the advantage of tailoring programs to local needs & state based requirements by using approaches that will be most acceptable to workers in the given community.

A Community College may be defined as an Institution which is “For the community, By the community and Of the community” and entitled to award an Associate Degree (AD) as its highest degree. It offers educational opportunities to all sections of society, particularly the marginalized & the disadvantaged. A community can be locality based, region based, trade based or occupation based and even ICT enabled service based.

TSCC- Town Schools Community College

Where the passion to excel in imparting education, vision to impact lives & mission to bridge the socio-economic divide; all converge to connect education with employment – this defines the spirit of Town Schools Community College. Town Schools has been awarded the status of Community College by IGNOU in December 2009.

Town Schools skill development centers, across India, have the capacity & competency to offer need-based skill development certified programs in a range of employment sectors, like ICT/ITES, Soft Skills, Retail-Sales, Hospitality Services, Travel & Reservation Services, Security Services, BPO, Teacher Education, Banking & Finance, Accounting & Micro-Finance.

Contents of our Training Programs are simple, contextual, based on uniform structure, vetted by Subject Experts, having exercises geared towards developing practical skills specifically for the target community learners. Our mandatory periodic Training the Trainer programs ensure that our trainers at all centers observe uniform quality standards of competency, training skills, methodologies, best practices for training transaction & assessments.

Objective of Community Colleges in India

• India has largest share of youth population which needs to be channelized into diverse and multi-level occupational areas.

• The increased emphasis on targeting 2-tier and 3-tier cities for development necessitates tapping the local talent and skill for community specific trades & occupations.

• In India only 25 Lac Vocational training seats are available whereas 1.28 cr. people enter the labour market every year

• Only 5% of Indian labour work force between the age of 20-24 years have obtained vocational skills through formal means/trainings.

• Community College system is an alternative education system in India. Skill development is the only innovative alternative which would add value to the huge population of potentially employable age group of Indians, thereby establishing India as the world capital of rich human resource.

• To fulfill the needs of the School dropouts & enable them to acquire the necessary skills for livelihood and formal qualifications for social status and societal recognition