Workshop on childhood education on July 19

Children's Resources International (CRI) will organise a teachers' training workshop on 'Early Childhood Education' to enhance capacity of teachers on the topic at AIOU here on July 19.
The five-day workshop is being organised in collaboration with the Higher Education Commission (HEC) and the Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU) and would be participated by about 60 faculty members in the field of education from different country's universities.
The workshop with a funding support of USAID will be inaugurated here at Allama Iqbal Open University.
In a meeting held here on Wednesday with vice chancellor AIOU, Professor S. Altaf Hussain in the chair along with the Country Director of CRI, Mrs. Mehnaz Akbar Aziz and other officials finalised the arrangements of the workshop. Country Director CRI, Mrs Mehnaz Akbar Aziz apprised the meeting that renamed International trainers Dr Vicky Styton and Dr Elizabeth Jones will conduct the workshop.
Professor Altaf Hussain remarked the AIOU is the premier national institution with an excellent faculty and resources for teachers training in the country and will provide its platform for this important event. He assured that AIOU would extend all co-operation for the event.
Mrs Mehnaz Aziz said, this is the first time in Pakistan that the Early Childhood Higher Education courses are being introduced to 30 national universities and education departments.
CRI is the first non-profit education and training organisation whose course on Early Childhood Education would be incorporated for higher education all across the country in all the major universities.
CRI supports faculty in colleges and universities in preparing early childhood teachers for the practice of child entered teaching. It is for the first time in Pakistan that such an initiative in the Early Childhood Education is being undertaken at this scale.
The training is based on years of research work conducted by renowned international educationists. CRI has conducted large scale training programme to more than 680 teacher, principals and administrators at primary level in Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Taxila and Karachi.