Centre of Excellence in Teachers Training to be established in Islamabad
Pakistan and UNESCO have agreed to establish PAK-UNESCO Joint Centre of Excellence in Teachers Training and STEAM Learning in Islamabad.
An understanding to this effect was reached during a bilateral meeting held at Tashkent, Uzbekistan between the Federal Minister for Education Rana Tanveer Hussain and Ms. Stefania Giannini, Assistant Director General for Education UNESCO.
Rana Tanveer Hussain informed about Pakistan's resolute commitment to overcome the major challenges in education sector and mainly in the areas of out of school children, girls education, actions required to mitigate learning losses, quality of education and use of technology & STEM to assist the conventional mode of learning.
While considering the importance of teachers' training and
STEAM education, he proposed for Pak-UNESCO Joint Centre of
Excellence (CoE) in teachers training and STEAM learning at Islamabad, which will be established with the support of
UNESCO. The said Centre will mainly focus of early childhood & primary education.
Ms. Stefania Giannini assured for mobilizing the global
partners to provide all possible assistance to Pakistan's education sector.
The Director of UNESCO Asia and Pacific
Regional Bureau for Education informed that the said
proposal/project will be covered under the component of learning recovery
and education for all of the Bangkok declaration, for which Pakistan will submit its formal proposal.
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