CAPACITY BUILDING OF ENGINEERING EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS IN AFGHANISTAN

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CAPACITY BUILDING OF ENGINEERING EDUCATIONAL
INSTITUTIONS IN AFGHANISTAN

• Dr. Bahawodin Baha
• School of Engineering, University of Brighton,
  UK.
• December 20, 2006

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Content

• Todays activity will have two parts
• First part
• What is DelPHE and its objectives?
• The proposed partnership and its objectives
• Second part
• Some questions for the participants on the
  curriculum of subjects related to electronics
• Highlight about the future activities

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Development Partnerships in Higher Education
programme (DelPHE)

• The UK Government's Department for International
  Development (DFID) through the British Council is
  supporting a new Development Partnerships in
  Higher Education programme (DelPHE).
• The objective of this programme is to address the
  Millennium Development Goals through the
  partnerships between Higher Education
  Institutions in the UK (HEIs) and 25 bilateral
  focus countries.

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Millennium Development Goals

• UN MILLENNIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALS (MDGS)
• Goal 1 Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
• Reduce by half the proportion of people living on
  less than a dollar a day
• Reduce by half the proportion of people who
  suffer from hunger
• Goal 2 Achieve universal primary education
• Ensure that all boys and girls will be able to
  complete a full course of primary schooling
• Goal 3 Promote gender equity and empower women
• Eliminate gender disparity in primary and
  secondary education preferably by 2005, and to
  all levels by 2015
• Goal 4 Reduce child mortality
• Reduce by two thirds the mortality rate among
  children under five
• Goal 5 Improve maternal health
• Reduce by three quarters the maternal mortality
  ratio
• Goal 6 Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other
  diseases
• Halt and begin to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS
• Halt and begin to reverse the incidence of
  malaria and other major diseases
• Goal 7 Ensure environmental sustainability
• Integrate the principles of sustainable
  development into country policies and programmes
  reverse loss of environmental resources
• Reduce by half the proportion of people without
  sustainable access to safe drinking water
• Achieve significant improvement in the lives of
  at least 100 million slum dwellers, by 2020

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Proposed partnership

• Kabul University (KU)
• University of Brighton (UoB)
• Kabul Polytechnic University (KPU)
• Training center of the ministry of communication
  (ICTI)

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Goal

• To enhance the capacity of engineering
  educational institutions in Afghanistan, where
  the future workforce acquire their knowledge and
  experience that is highly desirable for
  sustainable development in the country throughout
  the 21st century.

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Specific objectives

• To modernize the curriculum for the bachelor
  programs in electronics, communication, computer
  technology.
• To train lecturers in modern engineering subjects
  
• To include computer simulation and experimental
  work within the new curriculum
• To integrate ICT within engineering education
• To develop the curriculum at technician level
  courses such as higher National Certificate (HNC)
  and Higher National Diploma (HND) in the UK
• To extend benefits and results of this project to
  other regional universities in Afghanistan

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How to Achieve these objectives?

• We have to work hard starting from today towards
  achieving these objectives.
• Thanks for your attention
• The END.