ISLAMABAD: The Allama Iqbal Open University will offer free education to physically handicapped, visually and physically impaired students up to the PhD level.
The students will get enhanced facilities including provision of study material through computerized accessibility network.
AIOU Vice Chancellor Dr Shahid Siddiqui, while presiding over a meeting of academic heads, said that the number of disabled persons enrolled with AIOU has recently reached 400, and it is hoped that more students will benefit from the educational facilities which are available from Matric to PhD level.
The meeting reviewed the process of ongoing admission (Spring-2017), which will continue till March 6 and the issue of fee concession to the deprived sections of the society.
