EVALUATION OF IN-SERVICE TEACHER TRAINING PROGRAMME OFFERED TO UNIVERSITY TEACHERS IN THE STAFF TRAINING INSTITUTE, UNIVERSITY OF PESHAWAR, NWFP, PAKISTAN

Abstract

The history of higher education shows that formal training for university teachers was not considered essential. From time to time some of the quarters voiced for the need of In-Service Training for University teachers. It was first forwarded in National Education Policy, 1979 and was materialized in the shape of establishment of an “Academy of Higher Education” under the auspicious of University Grants Commission (U.G.C). Peshawar University took the lead and established an In-Service Teacher Training Unit (ISTTU) on its premises for the newly recruited teachers in 1985. Later on, it was renamed as “Staff Training Institute” (S.T.I). The objectives of the study were to evaluate the effectiveness of In-Service Training programme availed by university teachers in the Staff Training Institute (S.T.I), University of Peshawar since its inception (1985), in term of raising the professional competence of teachers, to identify deficiencies and weaknesses of the programme and to put forward suggestions for improvement of the programme as organized for university teachers. The sample of the study included university teachers, who had undergone In-Service Training in S.T.I, Resource persons; Directress S.T.I and Chairmen of the respective departments. Three questionnaires, one each for the participants of STI, resource persons of STI and Chairmen of various departments of Peshawar University from which these participants were nominated for the training programme and interview schedules were used for collection of required data. The collected data was tabulated, analyzed and expressed in percentage.