PESHAWAR, Dec 1: The University of Peshawar will sponsor and provide incentives for five years to academically sound students who take up teaching as profession. Vice-Chancellor Lt-Gen (Retd) Mumtaz Gul said this at the inaugural ceremony of the Higher Education Commission Training Workshop for Master Trainers at the Department of International Relations on Thursday.

The workshop was organized by the Frontier Education Foundation Academy (FEFA) in collaboration with the Higher Education Commission (HEC).

The VC said that after completion of master’s degree from the university, trainee students would be provided hostel accommodation and stipends of Rs5,000. Outstanding students would be properly employed and sent abroad for Ph D.

He said the move was aimed at attracting brilliant students to teaching, adding that the university should act like an academy to enhance teacher’s knowledge in every field.

He urged teachers not to compare their profession with the profession of others as teaching was a pious and prophetic profession. Teachers were nation builders and they should be proud of it, he observed.

Director, Frontier Education Foundation Academy, Dr Mujib Tahir, said that for this training workshop two resource people from Lahore had been hired for two weeks who would deliver lectures to participants in the Department of International Relations.