Pakistan's tech minister gathered education bigwigs around a conference table to hash out plans for training professors in artificial intelligence. Shaza Fatima Khawaja brought together officials from the Higher Education Commission, Meta executives, and computing education leaders to discuss their ambitious faculty development scheme. The government partnership with Meta and education authorities targets more than 1,000 university teachers across the country. Teachers will receive both people skills training and technical certificates through Meta's LLaMA program on Coursera. The initiative plans to certify between 250 and 500 educators with cutting-edge AI knowledge.
Education commission chairman Dr. Mukhtar Ahmed joined computing...