PESHAWAR: A 12-day workshop started at the Bara Gali summer campus of the University of Peshawar Thursday to train the faculty members of the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication for the educational television channel to be launched by the university in the near future.
Jointly organized by the University of Peshawar and Germany’s Deutsche Welle (DW) broadcast organization, the workshop was formally inaugurated by vice-chancellor of the university Prof Dr Azmat Hayat Khan.
The vice-chancellor has been in Bara Gali for the last several days where he has been inaugurating and concluding different training sessions, workshops and seminars. Speaking at the inaugural ceremony, Dr Azmat Hayat said the German organisations had been very supportive of the UoP. They have helped the university to set up the campus radio stations, which is a success story, he added.
The vice chancellor said the step initiated by DW to train the faculty of UoP about documentary making was very good. He said this would serve to train the young producers and technicians in the upcoming educational television channel.
Floran Weigan, representative of DW said that opportunity for the children to attend school were very low here and those who go to school were unaware of the informal education, which was direly needed today.
The DW representative said by teaching innovative ways of documentary magazine programmes for children and youth, the kids would be able to pick things very easily and this would serve as an informal source of education. Floran Weigan added that there was no replacement of schools but the programmes would build the social framework of children in the form of infotainment.
Dean Faculty of Management and Information Sciences Prof Dr Shahjehan Syed said the television channel which the University of Peshawar was going to launch would not be on commercial basis. The channel, he added, would help students with distance learning in getting hands on lectures and infotainment programmes.
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