It is not education for education's sake, for that is being done in university campuses. This program is only for vocational education and in the priority list, the topmost is IT," Bhushan Patwardhan, a leading academic of Pune University, told IANS. "We are not targeting students as much as senior citizens, VRS and defense personnel who retire early. They have discipline but need skills," he said. It was two years ago that Pune University signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Ahmedabad-based Transnational Alternate Learning for Emancipation and Empowerment through Multimedia (Taleem), a literary, scientific and charitable trust with distance and open learning on its agenda. However, it was only two and a half months ago that this MoU actually translated into real action.