The Lahore College for Women University (LCWU) Faculty Development Centre on Friday partnered with the British Council Pakistan to set up an International Education Resource Centre at LCWU.
The decision was made in a meeting between LCWU Vice Chancellor Dr Sabiha Mansoor, deans and heads of departments of the college and British Council Pakistan Education UK head Nadia Kamran.
Speaking on the occasion, Nadia Kamran said that the purpose of setting up the student hub was to promote international education programmes with the expressed goal of increasing knowledge transfer, student and staff mobility and sharing of best practices between the academic communities in Pakistan and the UK.
The British Council would facilitate, build the capacity and mentor 18 faculty members at the LCWU in the areas of Career Counseling, Transnational Education, Linkages and Research Collaboration, Digital Aspects of Internationalisation, Coordinating Activities and Publications, Attracting Regional Students, Business Entrepreneurship, Staff and Student Mobility and Social Entrepreneurship.
Kamran said that the selected faculty members would be trained for 6-8 weeks after which they would be kept in contact through meetings, e-mail, skype and video conferences so that they could enhance their administrative and managerial faculties to uplift their institution nationally and internationally.
Dr Sabiha Mansoor appreciated the British Council for their cooperation in this regard.
She expressed the vision to raise the LCWU to the top 500 universities in the world, adding that setting up an international education resource centre would help achieve the goal.
good work 🙂
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