Chairman PHEC Prof. Dr. Fazal Ahmad Khalid attended a pre-consultative meeting co-organized by UNESCO-ICHEI and the University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore, Pakistan (IIOE Presidency 2021) as part of the 2021 IIOE Asia-Pacific Mid-Year Consultation Meeting entitled “Digital Transformation for Inclusive and Quality Higher Education: Mapping the Core Competencies of the Higher Education Workforce”.

During the meeting, experts from Mongolia, the Republic of Korea, Indonesia, Malaysia, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, China, the UNESCO Almaty and the UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education (UNESCO-IITE) shared their views on how the updated IIOE Competency Framework can be better aligned with the existing national standards for teachers’ professional development across the Asia-Pacific region.