Partnerships in the provision of education are receiving increased emphasis among policy-makers and practitioners. Governments recognize limitations in their own capacity, and have become more willing to collaborate with other organizations and groups. This paper presents one such partnership model adopted by National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS), India to highlight the nature of partnership, the advantages and disadvantages, the performance of the learners as an indicator of effective partnership outcomes and an insight in the current capacity level of the personnel in partner institutions which is likely to have effect on the overall performance of AI’s.