Punjab Becomes First State To Send More Than 300 Teachers/ Principals Abroad For Training To Benefit Students Of Government Schools

Mar8,2025 | Gautam Jalandhari | Chandigarh

MORE THAN 500 TEACHERS IMPARTED TRAINING INTERNATIONALLY AND NATIONALLY

Chandigarh, March 8:

In a first the Punjab government led by Chief Minister Bhagwant Singh Mann has set a new benchmark by imparting world class training to 306 Principals and teachers abroad for the sole motive of imparting quality training to the students in government schools.

The Chief Minister, accompanied by Education Minister Harjot Singh Bains, on Saturday flagged off the seventh batch of 36 Principals for training at Principals Academy, Singapore from March 9-15. Prior to this Punjab has sent six batches of 198 principals/education officers for a five day Leadership Development Programme to Singapore and 72 Primary Cadre Teachers to Turku, Finland. Apart from it three batches of 152 Headmaster/education officers were sent to IIM Ahmedabad.

During the training these teachers are equipped with modern teaching practices prevalent abroad and after their return these teachers share the practices with students and their colleagues thereby ensuring that students get acquainted with the pattern of study on foreign shores. This is a path breaking initiative which is rejuvenating the entire education system of state for the well being of students with these teachers actually acting as agents of change in the education sector in the prevalent times by ensuring quality education to students. This out of box idea is bringing the much needed qualitative change in the education system of the state by benefitting the students.

This is in consonance with the vision of the Chief Minister who believes that the competence and ability of teachers and school heads directly reflect on the quality of learning of their students and performance of their schools. In this backdrop, the concept of exposure visits of school teachers and school heads to a foreign nation has created a systemic impact of cross learning, high motivation and better teaching learning processes in the educational institutes.

The objective is to take the education system to the next level by providing exposure and educational training to teachers, school heads, and school education administrators in countries like Switzerland, Singapore, Finland and institutes like Harvard and Oxford on government expenses.

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