Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU) will collaborate with Plan International for setting up open-schooling system in Pakistan at district levels to help the government for achieving millennium development goals by 2015. A memorandum of understanding (MoU) had already been signed between AIOU and Plan International on providing "Equal right of opportunity for girls and young women.
This was revealed during the inaugural ceremony of ten-day Master Trainer's workshop of Girls Power Project (GPP) held on Monday. Director, Bureau for University Extension and Special Programmes/ Projects (BUESP), AIOU, Mir Mukhtiar Hussain Talpur said this MoU provided main basis of their bilateral co-operation in facilitating the dropout students in their educational pursuit at middle and matric levels.
The GPP has been launched for dropout female students. Twenty seven Master Trainer's from different parts of the country were participating the workshop. Mukhtar Hussain Talpur said that BUESP of the University would soon be named as "National Institute of Open Schooling and Lifelong Learning" to project its objectives and status, as per vision of the vice chancellor Professor Dr Nazir Ahmed Sangi. It will have important role university's image-building and strengthening its efforts promoting literacy rate in the country.
The master trainer's will be assigned the task to train thousands of the teachers to participate in the Middle - Matric education programme for dropout girls in befitting manner. According to the MoU, five-year international programme "Girl Power (GP) Programme" on increasing access and participation of young girls and women in primary and post-primary education will be implemented initially in two districts Chakwal and Vehari.
There are two projects in the MoU one is the basic skills for life in Thatta and the other is Girl Power Project in Vehari and Chakwal. AIOU will provide assistance in teacher training and curriculum development while Plan International will be responsible for all activities related to program implementation and bringing the program on ground.
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