Kohima, October 23 (MExN): The Nagaland Board of School Education (NBSE) and Nagaland State AIDS Control Society (NSACS) will jointly conduct one-day online training programme under the Adolescence Education Programme (AEP) for teachers under Kohima, Mokokchung, Tuensang, Mon, Phek, Wokha, Zunheboto, Dimapur, Chümoukedima, Niuland, Noklak, Longleng, Peren, Tseminyu and Shamator districts on October 29 from 1:00pm to 3:00pm
The Adolescence Education Programme (AEP) is a joint initiative by Ministry of Education (MoE), Department of School Education & Literacy and National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO), Government of India. In Nagaland, the NSACS have been conducting training programmes for teachers under AEP since 2010 with the objective to provide accurate age appropriate life skills based adolescence education in a sustained manner in schools and provide structured education to enhance knowledge and skills of adolescents to deal with challenges of life.
Some of the areas to be discussed under this training are as follows: HIV & AIDS and STI; HIV & AIDS (P&C), Act 2017; Growing up and Adolescence Reproductive Sexual Health.
All the Heads of Registered Institutions under the above mentioned districts have been requested to take note of the importance of this training and depute one teacher to attend the online meeting positively. The registration link for the training programme will be shared later in the district WhatsApp groups and email ID of the schools. The attendance of teachers from all the registered schools is compulsory and will be monitored, stated a DIPR report.
