Education sector: KP government, Microsoft join hands to highlight technological advancements

Microsoft in collaboration with the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Elementary and Secondary Education Department hosted a seminar in Education dubbed 'Microsoft Edu Day'. The seminar brought together delegates from across the region to showcase the latest technology designed specifically for the education sector to promote immersive, inclusive and 21st century learning.

The event was graced by Advisor to Chief Minister on Elementary and Secondary Education, Zia Ullah Khan Bangash; Provincial Minister for Information Technology, Kamran Khan Bangash and Microsoft Country Education Lead, Jibran Jamshad in addition to relevant stakeholders of the Education sector.

The event provided a platform to explore possible partnership opportunities of empowering the growing number of youths in the country which is at an all-time high according to the 2017 Pakistan National Human Development Report. The report highlights how the country's youth can be a critical force for development, if they are empowered with education and knowledge, according to press release issued here on Saturday.

"In today's era of mobility, there is no other way but to re-invent. Developing relevant skills from a young age has become a necessity, as youth navigate an increasingly technological world" says Advisor to the CM on Elementary and Secondary Education; Zia Ullah Khan Bangash." It is essential that learners are up skilled, with access to quality education that provides youth not only with the technical and vocational but also core employability skills, necessary for them to become a functional part of a thriving digital economy."

Some of the technologies showcased include Office 365, Azure, Microsoft Imagine Academy Certifications and the Microsoft Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Campus Management Solutions, which are designed to drive better learning outcomes, more productive classroom time, and create effective institutions. Artificial intelligence is powering majority of the solutions being used in education space, be it the use of cognitive APIs for safe campus management, or to run training algorithms in a managed instance under Machine Learning Studio, or to predict learning outcomes based on student performance all year around; insight driven decision making is only possible using the power of AI, built into the Microsoft platform.

Copyright Business Recorder, 2019