ISLAMABAD: Capital Administration and Development Division (CADD) has planned to initiate three new programs for ICT schools under the Prime Minister Education Reforms Programme, including compulsory training for teachers, a nutrition programme for children and structuring of Federal Directorate of Education (FDE).
Talking to APP here on Friday, Advisor to PM on the Education Reforms Programme, Ali Raza said that these programmes are in pipeline and would be started soon in the public sector schools of the Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT).
He said that under the training program, around 10,000 teachers would be given compulsory training.
CADD will finalise criteria of training and teachers would be offered optional training courses which would enable them to get promotions in their career, he added.
He said that in the second programme, CADD would structure the role and authority powers of the Federal Directorate of Education (FDE).
The authority of the heads of schools and the area education officers will be decided so that the issues could be resolved at the local level.
Under the third programme for nutrition, around 110,000 children would be given nutritious diets in schools and uniform as well as stationery twice a year.
