Open School System in India focuses on:
Removing barriers to learning and making school education available to everyone, regardless of race or gender.
Increasing the breadth and equality of access.
Ensuring openness of access.
Improving the teaching and learning experience.
Ensuring that the secondary and senior secondary curriculum is relevant to the demands of various communities.
Ensuring the promotion of lifelong learning, as well as education and training.
Objectives of Open School System:
To provide a non-formal, cost-effective alternative to formal secondary and senior secondary education.
To supplement and relieve pressure on the conventional school system.
To encourage flexible learning by giving students the freedom to choose where, when, what, and how they learn.
To provide a “second chance” education to those who have had to stop their formal education or who have been unable to enroll in conventional schools due to social, economic, or other factors.
To democratize school education by allowing vast parts of the population, particularly disadvantaged groups such as those living in remote and rural areas, as well as working persons such as women and other adults, who seek to gain or upgrade their knowledge and skills.
To enrich people’s lives by providing ongoing and life-long education.
To provide an innovative high school-level education system that is flexible and open in terms of learning methods and pace, course combinations, enrollment eligibility, age of entry, examination administration, and program operation to promote learning and encourage excellence in new fields of learning.