ڈاکٹر راج بہادر گوڑاس
افسوس گذشتہ دنوں اردو کے شیدائی ڈاکٹر راج بہادر گوڑ اس دنیا سے رخصت ہوگئے، سرزمین اردو حیدرآباد میں پیدا ہوئے، ساری عمر اپنے نظریات کی اشاعت کے لیے جدوجہد کرتے رہے لیکن اردو سے بچپن سے جو رشتہ قائم ہوا تادم آخر اس کی حفاظت کرتے رہے، دارالمصنفین سے محبت رکھتے تھے، کئی بار یہاں آئے اور خوش ہوکر گئے، ان کی شائستہ شخصیت مشرقی قدروں کا دلکش نمونہ تھی، افسوس ایسے لوگ کم ہوتے جاتے ہیں، افسوس اس کا بھی ہے کہ ہم نے اپنا غم اور اردو کے نقصان کا اظہار تاخیر سے کیا۔
( عمیر الصدیق دریابادی ندوی ، جنوری ۲۰۱۲ء )
Najeeb Al-Kailani is a famous Egyptian Islamic writer. He was immensely impressed by Iqbal’s philosophy. He was absorbed in the study of Islamic literature in the early days of his life and dared to write many articles in various magazines, touching various aspects of Iqbal’s poetry. Al-Kailani then by maintaining his interest in Iqbal’s poetry, was compelled to write the book entitled إقبال الشاعر الثائر"”, (Iqbal, the Revolutionary poet). He was awarded with prize by ministry of education and training, and in 1977 President of Pakistan General Muhammad Ziaul haq awarded him gold medal. This article highlighted the impact of Allama Muhammad Iqbal in al-Kailani’ book and analyzed its text by refereeing it to the original poetry of Allama Muhammad Iqbal. This article concluded that Kailani’s book is finest and comprehensive book, which demonstrated the life and philosophy of Allama Muhammad Iqbal.
The study aimed at the survey of coverage, Quality, New Trends and Instructional Practices of Open and Virtual
universities in Pakistan. This study also focused upon exploring the actual impact of Open and Virtual
universities in expanding access to higher education in Pakistan and identifying innovations and good practices
in ICT-assisted learning in Open and Virtual universities in Pakistan. Procedure adopted for this study
contained desk review, observation of PVCs, study centers, getting the opinion of students, teachers and
administrators through questionnaires, interview schedule and FGDs.
The study concluded that AIOU had provided wider opportunities of access to higher education in almost all
disciplines of social, natural & management sciences because of its flexibility, tutorial services & regional
network. On contrary Virtual University has progressed at comparatively slower pace because of being only
ICT dependent. However both the universities have potential in expanding access to higher education in
Pakistan at least @ 10-25% per year.
The study further revealed that both the universities have jumped into the innovation and good practices of
online education, video conferencing, e-assessment & e-learning in providing education at bachelor & master
level. Both the universities have tremendous potential of entering into other innovations and good practices in
ICT-assisted learning to compete the contemporary regime of open and virtual learning.