The training will focus on governance issues and ways to deal with financial matters. PHOTO: FILE
LAHORE: The Punjab Higher Education Commission (PHEC) has organised a five-day training workshop for principals of public colleges in the province beginning tomorrow (Tuesday).
The opening ceremony will be held at the University of Health Science (UHS) Lahore at 9am.
A PHEC spokesperson said that PHEC chairman Dr Nizamuddin and Higher Education Department Secretary Irfan Ali would jointly chair the inaugural ceremony.
“The training will focus on governance issues and ways to deal with financial matters. Officials from the government and academia will address the workshop. The workshop is part of a training programme for academia in which universities and colleges are given specialised management training. Purpose is to enhance management at public sector higher education institutions,” the spokesperson said.
Dr Nizamuddin said that PHEC was organising the training for 690 principals of public colleges. “The training will focus on good governance and finance. The principals will be given training by specialists from government, academia and the PHEC in how to handle managerial and financial affairs of colleges,” he said.
“This is a first-of-its-kind training programme at this level and principals will benefit from it,” he said.
Nizamuddin said that the PHEC had already completed training of newly-recruited teachers in public universities in the Punjab. “The PHEC is also planning to establish teachers’ training academies in Lahore, Multan and Rawalpindi,” he said.
Published in The Express Tribune, July 11th, 2016.
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