The University of Oxford has made an important agreement with the Malala Fund to help a Pakistani group called Durbeen train teachers in Pakistan. Shehzad Roy, a famous musician and a supporter of better education, shared this news in an interview at Oxford University. He thanked Malala Yousafzai, who won the Nobel Prize, for helping to start this partnership.
This new program will create a special plan for a Master’s degree (M.S.) that prepares teachers to teach in Pakistan’s Teacher Training Institutions. The M.S. program has five areas of focus: Language, Social Studies, Mathematics, Science, and Educational Psychology. This means teachers will be ready to teach different subjects well, helping schools in Pakistan have better-trained teachers.
Dr. Ian Thompson from Oxford visited places like Karachi to see how teachers are trained right now. He said, “This program will really help teacher-trainers,” and he was happy to work with his friends in Pakistan on this project.
Shehzad Roy also talked about how important this program is for the future. He said, “If teachers are not trained well, kids will not learn important skills, like thinking critically and solving problems.” This program is all about helping trainers so they can improve education in the long run.
Salma Alam, the CEO of Durbeen, said this is a big step for Pakistan. It will create a new group of professional teacher-educators, which is something new for the country and not very common in the world. She said, “Good education starts with good teacher-educators. We must make this strong before we can build a good teaching workforce.” Alam finished by saying that this partnership with Oxford and the Malala Fund is the beginning of Pakistan’s journey to become a leader in education.
