Six master trainers, three advisers arrive

Tevta teachers’ training

LAHORE

Six master trainers and three advisers from Turkish International Cooperation Agency (TIKA), Turkey arrived Lahore to impart 21 days training to 90 Tevta teachers in automotive, construction and agriculture machinery sectors.

Cooperation between Turkish and the Punjab government is successfully in progress through an MoU signed between Industries Department and TIKA. Training programmes to train Tevta teachers will be held at Government College of Technology, Railway Road and Raiwind Road, Government Technical Training Institute Mughalpura, Lahore and Centre for Agriculture Machinery Industries Mian Channu.

It was stated by Chairperson Tevta Irfan Qaiser Sheikh on the inaugural ceremony of training programme at Government Staff Training College, Gulberg, according to a press release issued here on Wednesday. Turkish delegation, Chief Operating Officer Jawad Ahmed Qureshi, President District Board of Management Lahore Syed Mehmood Ghaznavi and others were also present.

Irfan Qaiser Sheikh said arrival of Turkish master trainers was a part of recent visit of Turkish delegation who successfully trained our 30 teachers in hospitality and tourism sector at Government Technical Training Institute, Gulberg. According to present training programme, Ramazan Baskaya in Draftsman Civil, Suleyman Yar in Mason, Mr smet Kebapci in Plumber, Mr Ömer Gokkus in Auto Electrician, Mr Vural Kaya in Auto Mechanic and Ali Irfan Ozyurek in Agriculture Machinery Mechanic trade will train our teachers. The training would be reflected in enhanced professional capability of Tevta teachers for imparting skills to the trainees.

Chairperson Tevta further said that Turkish support for training of Tevta trainers were some of the key areas of cooperation between both countries. The aim to arrange these training programmes is based on international standards and in line with the latest curricula and industrial exposure.

DFID: Punjab Education Foundation (PEF) has achieved many milestones of success by introducing valuable interventions in the school education sector.

The foundation has encouraged and helped the private entrepreneurs for setting up schools in areas where the poorest of the poor dwell so that the kids may study in nearby schools. This facility has motivated the needy communities to send their children to these schools. The education of the needy students is funded by the PEF so as to save them from the educational expenses. This has helped the low income families, mostly living in remote areas, to access free schooling facility for their kids.

MD PEF Tariq Mahmood said this while meeting with a nine-member delegation of Department for International Development (DFID) at his office on Wednesday.

The DFID delegation was led by senior education adviser and policy lead Ms Barbara Payne.

MD PEF briefed the delegation about role and expansion of different public private based educational programmes. He said that PEF had helped in improving equitable access to schooling, especially in southern districts where 67 percent of the partner schools were situated, while 69 percent of the 1.9 million PEF students belonged to the southern Punjab. We are also working to provide quality education through teachers’ certification programmes as well as encouraging the students to take part in co-curricular activities. Provision of quality education is our priority as we want to develop best leaders of tomorrow through the partner schools, he added. DFID’s Barbara Payne appreciated the efforts of the foundation in promotion of education. Education Adviser Javed Malik lauded the hard work and commitment of the students of remote and less developed areas where PEF sponsored schools were the ray of hope for low income families. He shared his experience of meeting with some of the devoted souls in Muzaffargarh district.