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US Embassy supports AIOU to provide English lessons via Radio in 25000 Schools
ISLAMABAD, May 31 : The US Embassy here is providing a $41,026 grant to Allam Iqbal Open University to produce a year’s worth of programs to teach English via radio to pupils in 25000 public schools across Pakistan.
Besides supporting production of 120 radio programme (10 instructional programs per month), the grant from the Embassy’s public Affairs Section also will fund printing of five teachers’ guides to help instructors across Pakistan effectively teach English using radio programs to pupils in grades 6 to 10.
Twenty five thousand World Space Corporation digital radios had been provided to the Ministry of Education by the US Agency for International Development (USAID) to support distance learning in Pakistan.
The US Embassy grant will enable content to be produced and taught over the radios, which will utilize a channel assigned by World Space.
The Education Ministry plans to re-use the instructional programs in coming years.
The provision of the grant was marked in a singing ceremony on Tuesday at AIOU. The University’s Institute of Educational Technology (IET) will supervise production of the instructional course and air them over the assigned radio channel.
Signing the grant were Dr. Syed Altaf Hussain, Vice Chancellor of AIOU and Robert L. Hugins, Cultural Attache of the US Embassy.