While the of ‘Information Age’, the fast evolution, use and proliferation of information technologies was a phenomenon not witnessed earlier in the history of mankind. It was against this backdrop that, H.E. the Ambassador of Pakistan in Syria requested the President INIT/Rector CIIT during latter’s visit to Damascus to help the Pakistan Embassy School, Damascus to initiate Information Technology courses there.
The INIT took the assignment with full enthusiasm and prepared a Report for Initiating Information Technology Course at Pakistan Embassy School in Syrian Arab Republic. The Report presented fairly good account of Information Technology courses along with contents divided into two parts:
Part – I - Described the basic computer orientation lessons for initiating Information Technology courses in Class – I to Class – VIII. The details briefly elucidated objectives, contents to be studied and the set of skills expected to be built therefrom.
Part – II - Presented an ensemble of courses arranged in generic skill categories that they impart; e.g. office automation, programming, networking, database management, etc. Furthermore, the courses were arranged in ascending order of difficulty i.e. Level I – IV. Each successive step moved from ‘Basic’ to ‘Intermediate’ to ‘Advance’ and onto the ‘Professional’ level.
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