Spreading the wings: LUMS to set adult propagandize of education
LAHORE:Â The Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) has announced it is going to set adult a propagandize of preparation after removing capitulation from a house of trustees.
The propagandize of preparation joins as a fifth entity of LUMS that already has schools of business, humanities and amicable sciences, scholarship and engineering, and law, pronounced a matter released by a varsity on Thursday.
The exploratory proviso for a LUMS School of Education was instituted in Oct 2015 with appropriation from a Babar Ali Foundation.
Over a march of a plan phase, a group determined local, informal and general links by events such as a initial Education Roundtable during LUMS in Mar 2016. It convened academics, practitioners, and process experts with a aim of bargain manifold perspectives on educational reforms in a country.
Similarly, in May 2016, an Education Roundtable during a Harvard University seeded partnerships with tip universities and expertise from Harvard, Stanford, MIT, NYU, University of Pennsylvania, Columbia, and Northwestern, among others.
Faculty from these universities will form a International Advisory Board for a newly determined LUMS School of Education.
Three kinds of programmes will be offering by a school. These embody a Masters in Education Policy, Leadership and Management, starting in Fall 2018, a Minor in Education for LUMS undergraduate students.
Also, there will be a Professional Education Institute for Policy and Practice to actively rivet and yield trainings to public, private, non-profit and donor sectors of preparation in a country.
Published in The Express Tribune, Jan 6th, 2017.
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