The National Skills University (NSU) Islamabad Vice Chancellor and senior faculty members participated in the UNEVOC Coaction 2023, Digital Transformation Theory and Methodologies. Besides NSU, other participating institutions in this ceremony included Preah Kossomak Polytechnic Institute (PPI), Cambodia; Shenzhen Polytechnic University (SZPU), China; Temasek Polytechnic (TP), Singapore; Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia (UTHM), Malaysia; Zhejiang Technical Institute of Economics (ZJTIE), China. The chief guest of this ceremony was Mr. Olivier Pieume, Chief of the Technical Cooperation Unit and Team Leader for the Network Secretariat at the UNESCO-UNEVOC International Centre for Technical and Vocational Education and Training. He spoke about the importance of emerging technologies and the UNESCO UNEVOC initiatives on digitalization. According to him, it is heartening to note that six centers from China, Cambodia, Malaysia, and Singapore will develop strategies for including digitalization in TVET. The National Skills University Islamabad, including the other five centers, will be the model for the rest of the institutions to follow.
The primary objectives of the UNESCO/UNEVOC Capacity-building on Digital Transformation in TVET are to train TVET leaders, program directors, and key teachers/trainers across 6 UNEVOC Centers participating in this program. This will involve capacity-building on developing and transforming TVET programs, curricula, open educational resources development, EdTech integration, and digital pedagogies in TVET. This will follow with creating and sharing six promising digital transformation practices from six UNEVOC Centers leading to digital transformation learning and sharing community involving 6 UNEVOC Centers, including the National Skills University Islamabad.
According to Prof. Dr. Muhammad Mukhtar, Vice Chancellor of the National Skills University Islamabad, the fast evolution of industrial revolutions like Industry 4.0 to 5.0 could only be sustainable and prosperous/sustainable if there is immense collaboration across countries. The emerging society resulting from the Industrial Revolution society 5.0 is considered super smart. All this is facilitated by technologies like Artificial intelligence, blockchain, metaverse, virtual reality, quantum computing, and much more. Let us be an intelligent society; otherwise, the digitalization vacuum could be highly harmful for countries not following the world order.
National Skills University Islamabad Team Participating in UNESCO-UNEVOC Initiative on Digitalization in Technical Education organized by Shenzhen Polytechnic University (SZPU), China
