KP to Integrate Artificial Intelligence in Higher Education
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has made a serious step towards modernising its education system. Artificial intelligence will be employed in higher education and the provincial Higher Education Department has communicated its intentions and they wish to use it. The center of these initiatives has been defined within the academic scope of the Department through the AI Center of UET Mardan.
The department asked the university to take all the activities about artificial intelligence in the province as it is mentioned in the letter to the Vice-Chancellor of UET Mardan. The strategy involves the organization of specific training courses in the form of workshops on the topic of artificial intelligence among students and faculty members.
It is also proposed in the plan to innovate AI tools at the universities and to keep the payment of AI programs at a minimal level so that they could be more accessible.
This visionary step is part of a wider plan driven by Chief Minister K.P. and the Minister of Higher Education,Arches, and Libraries Meena Khan who chaired a top-level meeting on the topic.
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The meeting was also attended by UET Mardan Vice-Chancellor Professor Dr. Gul Muhammad Khan, Special Secretary Ghulam Saeed and Advisor / Director General Dr. Shafiq Ur Rehman. They talked about the immediate and longer-term solutions on how to transform K.P. Adoption of artificial intelligence into higher education institutions will transform such institutions into competitive ones.
The UET Mardan will now draw an elaborate model of utilizing artificial intelligence in the academic systems. All the higher education institutions in the province will adopt this framework next semester. Faculty member summer training camps will be organized as well so that teachers could become accustomed to the new AI-oriented curriculum.
A Memorandum of understanding (MoU) will be signed between interior departments concerned and the University of Engineering and Technology Mardan, Centre of artificial intelligence, and therefore giving the project due force within a precise time factor., and execution of this ambitious action plan will bring a drastic change in education through artificial intelligence.
