Non-Formal Education

It is an institution that is set up to convey flexibility and openness to the educational system. In addition, bring up educational opportunities for the weaker and disadvantaged sections of society. The objectives of Open School are given below: 

1. To offer a parallel non-formal system as an alternative to a formal education system.

2. To provide the opportunity of education to out-of-school learners, school drop-outs, working adults, housewives, and learners from disadvantaged sections of society living in remote areas of the country.

3.   To offer preparatory courses for permitting learners to take up secondary courses.

4. To offer Secondary, Senior Secondary, Technical, Vocational, and life enrichment courses through remoteness teaching approaches.

5. To endorse an open distance-learning structure of education through research, publication, and information dissemination.

This is an example of non-formal education

Non-formal education is an education system where flexibility is the keyword. Such a system is an open one concerning various aspects of education, i.e., admissions, curriculum, place of instruction, mode of instruction, and the time and duration of instruction. Various examples of such education systems are Open School and Open University, Open Learning, and Correspondence Courses.

References: Sociology of Education by S.S. Chandra & R. K. Sharma