Trades and skills: Training for media persons planned

Those with matriculation certificate are eligible to enroll .

LAHORE: Technical Education and Vocational Training Authority (TEVTA) Chairperson Irfan Qaiser Shaikh and Media Advocacy Centre chairman Sikander Hameed Lodhi on Friday inked a memorandum of understanding (MoU) over the training of aspiring media persons in accordance with industry needs.

Shaikh said the authority would provide space and material for a pilot of three-month courses that would be introduced at the Government College of Technology-Printing and Graphic Art in the city.  He said the Tevta would pay the centre for providing teachers and trainers to conduct the courses. Shaikh said the authority would also arrange the provision of any equipment needed for the programmes. He said the courses would be open to public. Shaikh said students who had passed matriculation examination certificates would be eligible to enrol on the programmes. Shaikh said the Punjab Board of Technical Education and the Trade Testing Board would conduct examinations for the courses and issue certifications.

Lodhi said there was a paucity of technical staff in the sector.  He said collaborating with the authority would remedy this. Lodhi said the centre and the Tevta would also collaborate over the formulation and execution of a marketing campaign for the courses. He said the Tevta and the MAC would strive to ensure that trainees found employment in the industry in Lahore. TEVTA COO Jawad Ahmad Qureshi, R&D Director Iftikhar Hussain Shah and Rao Shahid and Zubair Ahmad of the MAC were also present on the occasion.

Published in The Express Tribune, May 30^th, 2015.