The School of Continuing Education (SOCE), starting from rural development and women's education related programmes, has in the process of its growth identified certain important areas of concern and addressed them through a number of programmes such as Rural Development, Child Development, Disability, Youth and Development Work, Nutrition, Food Safety and Dietetics. Most of these areas stand qualified for an individual discipline status.

With the establishment of new schools, a number of programmes that were housed in SOCE were relocated to the respective Schools. Accordingly, Post-Graduate Diploma in Journalism and Mass Communication was relocated to the School of Journalism and Media Studies, while the Bachelor of Social Work, Master of Social Work, CAFÉ and DAFE were transferred to the School of Social Work.You can also join our discussion on http://forum.ignouonline.ac.in