PEIRA training teachers free of cost

Fee-free initiative has been taken with an objective to facilitate those private schools of ICT

ISLAMABAD: Private Educational Institutions Regulatory Authority (PEIRA) has initiated an extensive six-month training programme for around 500 teachers of federal capital schools in order to improve their professional skills and capabilities.

The fee-free initiative has been taken with an objective to facilitate those private schools of Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) that had meagre resources and were charging low fees from students.

PEIRA Chairperson Zia Batool said the training would be provided in different phases, elaborating that each phase would focus on 25 teachers.

She informed that in first phase, 25 teachers had already been imparted training successfully. "Teachers are nation builders. The training is as mandatory for them as the education for the students" she remarked.

The present government has made the PEIRA fully functional, she said adding it would now work for the registration, and capacity building of the private schools, besides providing training to their teachers.

Zia Batool vowed to take additional measures to impart quality education while improving the standard of education at ICT schools in collaboration with private schools, through public-private partnership.

Published in The Express Tribune, March 2^nd, 2020.