| |19 October 2019HIGHERReviewLPU not only fulfills the educational needs of the students, but equally supports them with placement opportunitiesious administrative and academic processes of distance education. It also minimizes the shortcomings of physical distances by providing 24*7 accessibility."Besides, the students get to ex-plore LPU e-Connect by download-ing `LPU Touch' mobile application that is available for both iOS and An-droid platforms. Amidst giving stu-dents a plethora of learning options, LPU conducts workshops for profes-sional development and academics enrichment adhering to the require-ments of the distance education stu-dents. In between delivering lessons, LPU checks the students' progress by conducting regular assessments and practical examinations at the university campus or at recognized schools and colleges within the state of Punjab.Promoting Co-Scholastic Activitiesfor Overall GrowthLPU not only fulfills the educational needs of the students, but equally sup-ports them with placement opportu-nities. "We conduct various place-ment drives at different locations to give the Distance Education Students a chance to work with top compa-nies. A Division of Student Career Services is operating at the universi-ty with a vision to equip the students with versatile traits to match core corporate needs. The credibility and efficacy of Student Career Services has gained attention from reputed companies like Amazon India, Wi-pro Ltd., Bajaj Allianz, HDFC Bank, ICICI Bank, Kotak Mahindra Bank, ING Vyasya Bank, Policy Bazaar, Competent Synergies, Max Life In-surance, Videocon, Globe Toyota (JCBL Group) and many others. In the last five years, several hundreds of students got placed in around 200 placement drives that we conducted," elucidates Ashok.For fostering the growth of the students in every aspect, LPU pro-vides the Distance Education stu-dents opportunity to participate and compete in various national and international mega events. The uni-versity organizes mega events like Sports Meet, One India, One World, Spectra (Inter-School Cultural Fest) and Global Open Festival `Youth Vibe' at the university campus. In most of these events, Distance Edu-cation students have paved their way by achieving distinguishable posi-tions. "At the time, when we present awards to the students during con-vocation ceremony, the ceremony is generally chaired by prominent in-ternational figures including heads of the Nations and Nobel Laureates," speaks Ashok. Apart from encouraging students to win at extra-scholastic events, LPU Distance Education plays an in-fluential role in persuading the stu-dents for higher education programs. "We are proud to own the success of the scholarship programs, which helped Olympian shooter and Arju-na Award winner, Gurpreet Singh; Shooting World Cup and Common-wealth Championship medalist, Amanpreet Singh; Asian Games Gold medalist Quadruple Scull (Row-ing), Sukhmeet Singh; Indian Senior Men's Hockey Team Member, Jas-karan Singh; Indian Basketball Team member, Arshpreet Singh and many more to follow the path of LPU Dis-tance Education," assert a smiling Chancellor, Ashok.By maintaining its originality and quality of education, LPU has bagged several awards and accolades in Open and Distance Learning category. They secured top honours in the 12th & 13th editions of World Education Summit Awards 2018 for Innovation in Open and Distance Learning from Digital Learning Magazine; Nation-al Education Excellence Award 2018 for being India's Best University in Open, Distance & On-Line Learning from Career Connect Magazine; CST Top Distance Learning Institutes of India Award 2018 from Competition Success Review Magazine. The uni-versity is now focused on becoming famous at global platforms.HIGHER EDUCATION ReviewTOP 10 MOST PROMISINGDISTANCE LEARNINGINSTITUTE IN INDIA - 2019
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