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Friday, March 22, 2013
Nominations for WISE Award openISLAMABAD: Up to 25 Pakistani organisations and education institutes are among 1,600 aspirants across the world applying for the prestigious WISE Award, 2013, according to the Qatar Foundation which organises the WISE (World Innovation Summit for Education) Award. Educationists, teacher trainers, teachers and students were told at an informative seminar held here that the awards provided them an opportunity to showcase their endeavours in the upcoming WISE Summit 2013 in Doha. Speakers said the WISE Award had been the most prestigious global title in the field of education initiated by the Qatar Foundation since 2009 under the patronage of the Qatar’s First Woman Shiekha Moza bint Nasser. The WISE Awards provide a platform to showcase some of the most magnanimous and courageous feats in the education sector and reward such persons or organisations so that more could be done globally to overcome the stalemate of lack of innovation in education around the world, says a press release issued by the seminar organisers. Pakistan has been part of the WISE Awards before. A year after its inception in 2009, Mushtaq Chappra from The Citizens Foundation received the WISE Award in 2010 along with $ 20,000. In 2012, education projects from Cambodia, Denmark, USA, India, Chile and Bangladesh were rewarded with the WISE Awards and $20,000 each. Over a span of three years groundbreaking and successful projects have come from many countries including Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ghana, India, Morocco, Nigeria, Pakistan, Paraguay, South Africa, Turkey, the UK and the US. Applications for the award are now open. The WISE Summit 2013 will be held in Doha on October 29-31. A three-day event with more than 100 countries and over 1000 global educational stakeholders participating in around 60 sessions over a pre-designated theme which would be disclosed soon. staff report
Courtesy www.dailytimes.com.pk