The students and teachers of AMUP School, Munduparamba near here, celebrated the visit of a foreign delegation to their campus on Thursday.
The school bubbled with enthusiasm as the 38-member team from countries including China, Colombia, North Korea, Indonesia, Mozambique, Namibia, Sri Lanka, Uganda, Vietnam, and Zambia curiously mingled with the children.
The visit was part of an advanced international training on ‘child rights, classroom and school management’ offered jointly by the Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA) and Lund University, Sweden. The team, led by Per Wickenberg, associate professor and director of the Department of Sociology of Law, Lund University, had visited the school in August 2010. K. Mohammed Haris, AMUP School headmaster who had taken part in SIDA training programme at Lund University, Sweden, five years ago, said the team examined the innovative schemes implemented at the school and reviewed the projects proposed in the coming months.
Apart from the Malappuram school, the team would visit three more schools in Malappuram and Wayanad districts.
The SIDA project is meant to impart guidelines to school managements and teachers and to provide them proper training in curricular and co-curricular activities.
The team spent a couple of hours at the school evaluating the involvement and participation of children in the conduct of education. The parent-teacher association (PTA), school clubs, and Scouts and Guides took part in a joint assembly presided over by Mr. Harris. Abdul Gafoor from DIET, Palakkad, presented a project.
P. Ubaidulla, MLA, and Prof. Wickenberg addressed the assembly.
