Staff Reporter
Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU) has decided to launch BS (Four-year) Health and Physical education program from next semester.
The program will be on merit-based in line the scheme of study of Higher Education Commission and the initiatives taken by the Vice Chancellor Professor Dr. Zia-Ul-Qayyum.
It will be run both through face-to-face and Open Distance Learning-mode of education by the Secondary Teacher Education Department of the AIOU. Admission in the program will be offered in Spring, 2020.
The program was introduced at the 2nd three-day Euro-Pak International Conference concluded here on Sunday, by the Department’s Faculty members Dr. Munazza Ambreen and Dr. Muhammad Tanveer.
While introducing the program, they said this program will help to promote healthy-living through education and sports-based activities. It will also indirectly contribute to the promotion of tolerance and mutual co-existence in the society.
The program, mainly designed by Dr. Naveed Sultana Chairperson Teacher Education Department will be conducted by teachers of physical education, who will have both theoretical and practical knowledge on the subject.
Trained coaches and sports personals will also involved in the learning process. The University’s effort in this connection was highly appreciated by the international guests and other participants of the conference that was jointly arranged by Sarhad University of Science and Information Technology and the AIOU.
Some renowned experts and scientists from home and abroad attended the mega event. The foreign guests were from Colombia, Germany, French, Iraq, Malaysia, South Korea and Slovenia. All together there were about twenty working sessions, during which research-papers were presented.
