IT teachers to be recruited soon in govt schools: Atif Khan

Peshawar, December 23: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Minister for Elementary and Secondary Education, Muhammad Atif Khan has said that the PTI led provincial government was actively working on introduction of Digital Literacy and Digital Curriculum in the government schools in collaboration with standard IT companies and for this purpose work on recruitment of IT teachers was underway on war footing basis. He hoped that this phase would be completed by February 15, 2016.
This, he, stated while chairing a meeting regarding establishment of IT Academy in collaboration of Microsoft Company in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, at Peshawar, on Wednesday.
The meeting besides other was attended by Additional Secretary Education Qaisar Alam , authorities concerned of Microsoft Company and IT experts.
Appreciating the efforts of PTI government for education initiative, the Microsoft Company offered free Microsoft Certification to 15,000 IT teachers of government schools. It may be mentioned here that expenses on Microsoft Certification is Rs.30,000 per person. The company informed the meeting that it would complete the training of IT teachers and Admin Staff in the summer vacation while in the second phase students would be given training in IT.