Staff Reporter
Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU) Vice Chancellor Prof Dr Zia-Ul-Qayyum Saturday while commending the government’s initiative of launching Teleschool project hoped that it will bring positive and revolutionary results in education sector.
Talking to media, he said that AIOU while utilizing its experience, will support the Ministry of Federal Education and Professional Training to impart quality education to the students and ensuring educational atmosphere at their homes.
The university, he said, will also make efforts to release the students’ mental stress during lockdown by sharing the messages of renowned personalities of society and through other positive activities.
He said that federal government and education ministry had taken the services of Open University for the Teleschool project aiming at to save the precious time of students, was wasting during lockdown due to coronavirus.
Under the initiative, AIOU will prepare educational programmes for students in its Institute of Education Technologies and then it will be telecasted through PTV, he added. In that regard, an agreement had been signed between the PTV and Education Ministry, he said.
He said that, Education Minister Shafqat Mahmood has planned to continue the initiative of Teleschool even after removing the lockdown.
