New Delhi:Don Bosco University, India, today announced its foray into the Online Education space with the formation of a strategic partnership with University18, a leading provider of affordable online education. Christened Don Bosco University Global, the online education platform is designed to leverage already available ICT technology and eLearning systems, to deliver a wide range of affordable Degree and Diploma Programs to learners around the World.

An Memorandum of Understanding was signed between Don Bosco University, represented by Fr.Stephen Mavely, Vice Chancellor, and University18, represented by Raunak Singh Ahluwalia, Director, at a ceremony in New Delhi. Also present at the occasion was Prof Ashoke Dutta, Director, IIM Shillong.

“We hope to target thousands of working-class young people across the globe,” says the Vice-Chancellor of the University, Dr. Stephen Mavely SDB, explaining how the classes and study will take place on the Web, enabling students to have access to the best professors from around the country.

Raunak Singh Ahluwalia, Director, University18 added – “Millions of people across India have spent their formative years in a Don Bosco School or Institution, and the Don Bosco Society represents concentious quality in education like no other brand in the Nation. We’re proud to be partnering with the Don Bosco Society in this endeavor , and are sure that students and working professionals across the Nation, indeed across the World, would benefit from the equitable and affordable access to quality education that the Don Bosco Global Platform shall provide.”

Using the state-of-the-art Virtual Classroom Technology, the Don Bosco Global Platform will run the programmes designed for working executives and professionals looking to further their professional qualifications, with a program that complements their work and their need to juggle a career, a family and an education.

These programmes give an option for anyone anywhere to be part of Don Bosco University (DBU) backed by its worldwide network in education and other developmental works. Details of the program to be launched in 2010 have already been made available at the portal www.dbuglobal.com.