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CAPACITY BUILDING OF ENGINEERING EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS IN AFGHANISTAN

CAPACITY BUILDING OF ENGINEERING EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS IN AFGHANISTAN. Dr. Bahawodin Baha School of Engineering, University of Brighton, UK. December 20, 2006. Content. Today’s activity will have two parts First part What is DelPHE and its objectives?

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CAPACITY BUILDING OF ENGINEERING EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS IN AFGHANISTAN

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  1. CAPACITY BUILDING OFENGINEERING EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS IN AFGHANISTAN Dr. Bahawodin Baha School of Engineering, University of Brighton, UK. December 20, 2006

  2. Content • Today’s 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

  3. 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.

  4. 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 • Goal 8: Develop a global partnership for development • Develop further an open trading and financial system that is rule-based, predictable and non-discriminatory. Includes a commitment to good governance, development, and poverty reduction - nationally and internationally • Address the least developed countries’ special needs. This includes tariff- and quota- free access for their exports; enhanced debt relief for heavily indebted poor countries; cancellation of official bilateral debt; and more generous official development assistance for countries committed to poverty reduction. • Address the special needs of landlocked countries and small island developing states • Deal comprehensively with developing countries’ debt problems through national and international measures in order to make debt sustainable in the long term • In cooperation with the developing countries, develop decent and productive work for youth. • In co-operation with pharmaceutical companies, provide access to affordable essential drugs in developing countries • In co-operation with the private sector, make available the benefits of new technologies - especially information and communications technologies

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

  6. 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.

  7. 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

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

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