Paro College of Education

27/09/2026

College’s Bhutan Red Cross Society Club at Kathri today

ད་རེས་སྤ་རོ་རྫོང་ཁག་ནང་སྦེ་ དད་ལྡན་སེར་སྐྱ་འབངས་ཚོགས་ཡོངས་ལུ་ བསྟན་འགྲོའི་གཙུག་རྒྱན་ ༧ སྐྱབས་རྗེ་སྤྲུལ་སྐུ་འཇིགས་མེད་ཆོས་གྲགས་མཆོག་གིས་ ཟབ་མོ་བཀའ་ཁྲིད་གནང་སར་ སྤ་རོ་ཤེས་རིག་མཐོ་རིམ་སློབ་གྲྭའི་ འབྲུག་ཉེན་སྒྲོལ་སྡེ་ཚོགས་ཀྱི་ཚོགས་ཕྲན་ འཐུས་མི་སློབ་སྦྱོང་པ་ཚུ་གིས་ ཁས་བླངས་ཞབས་ཏོག་ཞུ་ཡོདཔ་ཨིན།

26/09/2026

Paro College of Education extends its warmest congratulations to the College of Science and Technology (CST) on its 25th Foundation Day.

This Silver Jubilee marks 25 years of learning, innovation and service. We celebrate the dedication of CST’s leadership, faculty, staff, students and alumni, and their contributions to educating skilled professionals in national service.
We wish the entire CST family a joyful Foundation Day and continued success in the years ahead.

25/09/2026

Melodies and Movement by Little Hearts /"LITTLE BUDDHAS"

The Centre for Early Childhood Studies at Paro College of Education held Melodies and Movement by Little Hearts on 25 September 2026 at Manjushri 2 Hall, Rinpung Campus. The programme brought together children, parents, facilitators and the College’s Diploma in Early Childhood Care and Development (DECCD) students through rhymes, songs and dance. Children performed in groups, while first- and second-year DECCD students presented dances. Parents joined in a group dance, showing their support for the children’s learning. Facilitators guided the activities and performed alongside the children, creating a festive mood.

ECCD lays the foundation for lifelong learning by nurturing curiosity, communication, confidence and the ability to work with others during a formative stage of life. Programmes that bring families, educators and children together can strengthen that foundation. In this way, the Centre’s work contributes to Bhutan’s national movement towards an intelligent, progressive and productive citizenry.

The Centre is an Early Childhood Care and Development (ECCD) workplace offering inclusive preschool learning to children aged three to five from College staff families and the wider community. It provides a culturally and contextually relevant programme and serves as a demonstration and training site for faculty, student teachers, early childhood facilitators and inclusive education teacher aides. It also functions as a demonstration centre that role models best practices and adds an experimentation dimension alongside research and the provision of an ECCD facility to the surrounding community.

25/09/2026

སྤྱི་ལོ་ ༢༠༢༦ སྤྱི་ཟླ་༡༠ པའི་སྤྱི་ཚེས་ ༨་དང་ ༩ ལུ་ འགོ་འདྲེན་འཐབ་ནི་ཨིན་མི་ རྒྱལ་ཡོངས་ནང་ཆོས་དང་སྲོལ་རྒྱུན་ཤེས་ཡོན་གྲོས་འཛོམས་ཐེངས་གསུམ་པའི་དོན་ལུ་ གསལ་ཞུ་པ་དང་དོན་ཚན་གདམ་འཐུ་གྲུབ་ཡོད་མི་ཚུ་ གསལ་བསྒྲགས་འབདཝ་ཨིན། འདི་གི་དོན་ལུ་ གསལ་ཞུ་པ་ཚུ་གིས་ གྲ་སྒྲིག་འབད་དགོཔ་དང་། ཁ་གསལ་གྱི་དོན་ལུ་ ལས་རིམ་འགོ་འདྲེན་པ་དང་གཅིག་ཁར་འབྲེལ་བ་འཐབ་གནང་།

ཚེ་རིང་དཔལ་འབྱོར། ལས་རིམ་འགོ་འདྲེན་པ། ༡༧༦༣༤༧༥༩

24/09/2026

The Royal Society for Senior Citizens (RSSC) Sensitisation Session at Paro College of Education

The Royal Society for Senior Citizens (RSSC conducted a sensitisation session for the staff of Paro College of Education (PCE). The session drew attention to Bhutan’s ageing population and encouraged the College to consider how young people can build meaningful connections with senior citizens.

The discussion highlighted the value of interaction across generations and discussed how the PCE’s Service with Care and Compassion Initiative Plus (SCCI+) Club was initiated as a model to share their experiences, knowledge and perspectives about senior citizens. It was modelled for and by students to explore avenues to offer companionship and practical support to the elderly. The College fraternity committed to supporting the causes of the RSSC and the SCCI+ Club to strengthen mutual understanding, care, and help future teachers appreciate the contributions and needs of older people in their communities.

23/09/2026

22/09/2026

Paro College of Education Launches Inaugural President’s Lecture Series

Paro College of Education launched its Inaugural President’s Lecture Series on 22 September 2026 with a lecture by the College President, Dr Phuntsho Wangdi, titled “Transforming Education through Bhutanese Values for a SMART and Enlightened Citizenry.”

The lecture centred on the Royal Kasho on Education Reform, issued on the National Day of 17 December 2020, and His Majesty The King’s vision for a transformative Bhutan. Dr Wangdi described the Royal Kasho as a profound national call to shape education in response to a rapidly changing world while ensuring that Bhutan’s development remains anchored in its identity, values and aspirations.

He submitted five key areas of educational transformation inspired by the Royal vision: safeguarding national sovereignty and unity, strengthening Bhutanese values, shifting from content-based to skills-focused education, nurturing character, and integrating technology into teaching and learning. He emphasised that education must prepare young people to become creative, innovative, technologically capable and globally competitive while remaining compassionate, responsible and deeply rooted in Bhutanese values. Dr Wangdi further explained that the vision of a SMART citizenry, defined by Sincerity, Mindfulness, Astuteness, Resilience and Timelessness, calls for an education system that develops both competence and character. Such an education should nurture enlightened citizens who possess the knowledge, skills, values and motivation required to contribute meaningfully to national progress.

The lecture also reaffirmed the responsibility of Paro College of Education, as a premier teacher-education institution, to translate His Majesty’s vision into meaningful action. Proposed initiatives include student enrichment and community outreach programmes, conference/ seminar series, mindfulness and wellbeing education, strengthened research and innovation, technology-enabled learning, and the development of a green and sustainable campus.

The Lecture Series will become a special institutional feature of the College, providing a regular platform for intellectual engagement, professional learning and the exchange of transformative ideas. Guest, faculty and student lecture series are in the pipeline followed by podcasts and digital educational content, creating opportunities for distinguished speakers, academics and students to share their knowledge, experiences, research and innovative perspectives with the wider College community.

20/09/2026

National Workshop-cum-Seminar on “From Data to Decisions: Leveraging Generative AI, EMIS and Motherboard to Enhance Teaching, Learning and School Administration”

Paro College of Education successfully conducted a three-day National Workshop-cum-Seminar on “From Data to Decisions: Leveraging Generative AI, EMIS and Motherboard to Enhance Teaching, Learning and School Administration” from 18–20 September 2026 under the GPE-KIX-supported MIEMIS Project.

The programme brought together education professionals, technical experts, college faculty, principals and teachers. Participants developed practical skills in extracting, analysing, visualising and interpreting education data and explored the responsible use of generative AI in teaching, assessment, personalised learning and school administration.

The President of Paro College of Education graced the concluding national seminar as Guest of Honour. He emphasised that data must be converted into knowledge and ethical action, while AI should strengthen, not replace, teachers, educational leaders and human judgement. He also highlighted data quality, privacy, fairness, digital literacy, academic integrity and the alignment of technology with Bhutanese values.

Keynote speaker Mr Joy Ito of Gelephu Mindfulness City shared experiences from his projects and work at Chiba Tech. He encouraged learning through building, experimentation and innovation, demonstrating how creativity and practical engagement with AI can support educational transformation and future-ready learning.

The programme successfully strengthened participants’ capacity to make evidence-based decisions and provided a national platform for discussing implementation challenges and priorities for a data-informed and AI-ready education system in Bhutan. Paro College of Education acknowledges the support of IDRC and GPE-KIX, the partnership of Druk Gyalpo’s Institute, and the contributions of Gelephu Mindfulness City, Gyalpozhing College of Information Technology, College of Science and Technology, ROMTech, and the Ministry of Education and Skills Development.

16/09/2026

College Rimdo 16/09/2026

Today, Paro College of Education observed its Rimdo, a sacred occasion dedicated to invoking blessings for the good health, wellbeing, harmony, and success of our faculty, staff, and students.

Beyond its religious significance, the Rimdo served as a living educational platform, enabling students to experience our rich spiritual heritage and traditional practices. It also offered a meaningful opportunity to deepen their understanding of the timeless Bhutanese values of Tha Damtsig and Ley Judrey, while promoting Driglam Choesum and Semchoed Shoyen. These principles cultivate loyalty, moral responsibility, discipline, respect, compassion, and harmonious living.

As an institution entrusted with preparing future educators, Paro College of Education recognises that education must develop not only intellectual competence but also character, cultural identity, and spiritual wellbeing. Observing Rimdo, therefore, reflects the College’s commitment to nurturing knowledgeable, responsible, and value-driven educators who will uphold Bhutan’s rich heritage and transmit its enduring values to future generations.

14/09/2026

President Meets with Student Councillors

The President held a meeting with the Student Councillors to strengthen student leadership, participation and engagement within the College. During the meeting, the Students Governing Body (SGB) was empowered to take the lead in organising student enrichment and engagement activities.

The President emphasised that leadership must be exercised with responsibility, accountability and integrity. He highlighted the important role of the SGB in promoting student wellbeing, discipline, teamwork and a positive learning environment. The Board was encouraged to organise meaningful college activities while effectively representing students’ interests and maintaining constructive communication with the College management.

The President further stressed the importance of inclusiveness, mutual respect, transparency and responsible conduct in all SGB initiatives. He encouraged the Student Councillors to serve as exemplary role models, inspire active student participation and contribute innovative ideas toward the continued development of the College. The meeting concluded with a call for collective leadership and collaboration in advancing the wellbeing and growth of the College community. The Dean of Student Affairs also attended the meeting.