AIOU to launch skill training
To build the capacity of out-of-school children
ISLAMABAD:
The Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU) will launch skill-based training programmes for the unemployed and uneducated young men and women of the country from its Autumn 2020 semester.
The programme will be launched in collaboration with Alight Pakistan and Japan International Cooperative Agency (JICA) to build the capacity of out-of-school children, illiterate, and unemployed youth in Pakistan.
In the first phase, two skill-based training programmes on designing, cutting, stitching and entrepreneurship for girls and masonry for boys will be organised in Gilgit and Skardu.
The training will provide youth from these areas to train local communities as workforce for the CPEC.
Published in The Express Tribune, September 10th, 2020.