British Further Education Pathways and Industrial Links

STEP Institute of Professional Development celebrated "August" as Pakistan 's Independence Month. Whole of August students, staff and volunteers worked hard to put together a show which included various performances; mime, national songs competition and a play.

As part of its awareness campaign for Youth Development Programme, The SAEL Movement has arranged number of counselling and awareness seminars. “British Further Education Pathways and Industrial Links”, a counseling forum was held on September 13 2004 in Gujranwala and on October 13 2004 in Lahore .

Counselling Seminar in Pearl Continental Hotel (PC) Lahore

Second half of the education counselling seminar to council students for further education and importance of industrial links was held on October 13 2004 at Pearl Continental Hotel in Lahore .

Representatives from industry and education sector from all over the Lahore participated in the seminar and discussed the importance of linking vocational scenario to academia.

Representatives from The British Council, Higher Education Commission Pakistan (HEC), Edexcel International, Scarsdale International School , LEVI Strauss, Institute of Bankers and World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) spoke to the audience of three hundred students and provided individual counseling sessions for their queries to opt for further internationally recognised education pathways and industrial placements in Pakistan and abroad.

Representatives from Industry emphasized upon the pathways students may take up to get into variety of roles in industry and how the vocational exposure during their student life may help them gain the confidence and skills necessary for successful professional and personal life. STEP's education counselors provided free counselling services for students and young professionals for international industrial and educational placements.

Counselling Seminar in Shelton Hotel Gujranwala

Counselling session in Gujranwala city on October 2004 was encouraging for SAEL to further its efforts to aware youth about further education and the indispensable role of education for industrial and social development of their city.

Gujranwala is a state where education has to lead industries. City needs to train and educate the coming generations for the future challenges and development, while working on Cooperate Social Responsibility Issues to better the present socio economic and education scenario.

SAEL awareness seminar in Gujranwala is directly in line with Government's and other Non Governmental organisations' agenda to aware city's youth about diverse educational opportunities available at national and international level.

It was promising to see considerable number of female students interested to explore further educational pathways. Around one hundred and fifty students turned up on the day and they all seemed thrilled by the idea that now there are possibilities to actually explore education opportunities to become globally competent.