Bahrain Polytechnic to host PIN Conference

Manama, Oct.28 (BNA): The Post-secondary International Network (PIN) conference will open in Bahrain on Sunday (November1). Bahrain Polytechnic is organized the five-day event for the first time in the Middle East and the North Africa (MENA). Chief executives, leading experts and academic figures representing more than 30 technical universities and higher academic institutions for applied education from the United States, the UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Korea and other countries will converge on Bahrain to take part in the conference. Bahrain Polytechnic Bahraini cadres, elected students’ council members and students enrolled at different academic courses and programmes will also participate. The PIN conference sessions will be held alternately at Bahrain Polytechnic, the Gulf Chemical Industries Company (GPIC), Alba and Bahrain International Circuit (BIC). Bahrain Polytechnic Acting Chief Executive Officer Dr. Mohammed Al-Aseeri said preparations for the conference started in 2013. Bahrain Polytechnic, headed by board of trustees’ chairman Shaikh Hesham bin Abdulaziz Al-Khalifa, stepped up efforts since then to ensure the success of the conference and highlight Bahrain academic strides. The Postsecondary International Network (PIN) was officially launched in Chicago, Michigan, USA in 1979. Its members included initially a number of community colleges and institutes of technology from the USA and Canada. Gradually, institutes from the United Kingdom, New Zealand, Australia, Fiji, Bahrain and South Korea were added to the network to make it a truly international network. The main purpose of the PIN is to foster a close interaction among the technical community further education colleges, institutes of technologies and polytechnics in member countries in order to improve and expand the means by which they serve their own community, and recognizing the community’s place in an international setting. The PIN provides an international forum for studying and debating critical issues that affects post-secondary education.