{"id":28768,"date":"2012-07-15T03:08:07","date_gmt":"2012-07-14T22:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/?p=28768"},"modified":"2012-07-15T03:10:44","modified_gmt":"2012-07-14T22:10:44","slug":"39-teachers-complete-two-courses-at-akus-professional-development-center-chitral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/2012\/07\/15\/39-teachers-complete-two-courses-at-akus-professional-development-center-chitral\/","title":{"rendered":"39 teachers complete two courses at AKU’s Professional Development Center, Chitral"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gul Hammad Farooqi<\/strong><\/p>\n

CHITRAL<\/strong>:\u00a0 Since its inception in 2003, the Aga Khan University\u2019s Professional Development Centre in Chitral (AKU-PDCC) has been offering a variety of high quality innovative programs for building the capacity of schools and key stakeholders in Chitral, other parts of Pakistan, and Afghanistan.\u00a0\u00a0Over 2600 teachers, head teachers, and education managers have thus far attended various Certificate and short courses offered by this institution.\u00a0\u00a0PDCC. has also developed a number of schools as model in multi-grade teaching and ECED.\u00a0\u00a0Its faculty have engaged in research and published a number of articles and book chapters in various national and international journals and books.\u00a0\u00a0PDCC has recently won a very competitive research grant award from Higher Education of Pakistan to study the role of civil society institutions in promoting cultural diversity and pluralism in Chitral.<\/p>\n

A colorful ceremony was organized at PDCC to celebrate the successful completion of two Certificate Courses in \u2018Educational Leadership and management\u2019 and \u2018Primary Education\u2019.\u00a0\u00a0A total of 39 head teachers and teachers graduated from these two courses.\u00a0\u00a022 out of 39 were from government schools.\u00a0\u00a0Executive District Officer primary and elementary schools\u00a0 Muhammad Siraj was chief guest on the occasion while there ceremony was presided over by\u00a0 Sultan Mehmood\u00a0 Regional Program Manager\u00a0 Hashoo Foundation.\u00a0\u00a0The ceremony was attended by educationists, leaders of the civil society institutions, and teachers community.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Speaking at the ceremony, Dr. Mir Afzal Tajik, Head Outreach AKU-IED and Head PDCC highlighted key issues and hurdles in the way of improving the quality of education in the district.\u00a0\u00a0He also highlighted how these courses have helped the graduates to address these issues and thus bring about positive changes in their schools. He urged that bringing about positive changes in schools is possible but the head teachers and teachers have to initiate the change. The purpose of these courses was to develop the \u2018change agents\u2019 needed to initiate and lead the change.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Siraj Muhammad, EDO Education\u00a0 Chitral, thanked AKU-PDCC for its continuous efforts to enhance the capacity of schools and to develop leadership and change agents for schools in Chitral.\u00a0\u00a0He urged the graduates to implement what they have learnt in the courses and assured them of his full support.\u00a0\u00a0He particularly thanked PDCC leadership for their cooperation with the government education.\u00a0\u00a0He also advised the graduates that they should work with full enthusiasm and diligence.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Sultan Mehmood and others also lauded AKU-PDCC for its valuable contributions to capacity building of key stakeholders in Chitral.\u00a0\u00a0Mrs. Commandant Chitral Scouts while talking on the occasion expressed her great sorrow on trend of cheating. She said that mostly graduate and post graduates students could not speak transparently and they are very poor in general knowledge. Although they have degrees but no knowledge it means that they use unfair-means in examinations or warm palm of Board and university staff. She said that during recruitment of Chitral scouts some 31 candidates were pulled out from test hall because of involving in cheating. She said that our head teaches and teachers can bring positive changes. She appreciated decision of provincial government to bound government schools teaches to enroll their children in Govt. schools not in private one so as to couscous about the future of their own children and they will teach honestly to their students.\u00a0 At last\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Certificates were distributed\u00a0amongst the graduates.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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