Jamia holds seminars for faculties of Afghan institutions

Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI) university is conducting two training seminars for faculties of Afghanistan's academic institutions to update and improve their academic skills in collaboration with US agencies.
The training seminars were inaugurated today with JMI Vice Chancellor Talat Ahmad who welcomed the participants and resource persons of the programme.
Forty faculty members of Kabul University, Balkh University, and Kabul Polytechnic University will attend the seminars till January 7, a JMI statement said.
The Nelson Mandela Centre for Peace and Conflict Resolution at JMI, in collaboration with the Centre for Afghanistan Studies (CAS), University of Nebraska, supported by University Support Workforce Development Program funded by USAID, is conducting the training seminars.

The training programmes are part of "broader academic capacity building project" of CAS. UNO has been assisting Kabul, Balkh and Kabul Polytechnic universities with skills that will help the Afghan professors to teach better than before, improve their academic skills, and update their curriculum and syllabus to higher standards, it said.
The faculty from the College of Mass Communications and Fine Arts from University of Nebraska (Omaha) and those form the College of Engineering from the University of Nebraska (Lincoln) are helping with achieving the goals of the project.
The project is funded by USAID and administered by an international NGO partnering with it. The Nelson Mandela Centre for Peace and Conflict Resolution is the implementing partner for the project, added the statement.