Halal training goes online

Source: WHS website.

The third session of the Academics Forum, World Halal Summit (WHS) 2015, discussed the benefits of training online. Since the students do not have to be in a classroom, more students can be trained at one time, and from anywhere in the world.

"By investing in your human capital with training, you can improve your bottom line,” said Sameer Hassan, CEO of Ethica Institute of Islamic Finance, which provides online Islamic finance training from the UAE. Sameer also stressed that the courses need to be interactive and of high quality.

Zubair Moghal, Owner of the Halal Research Council, Al Huda CIBE of Pakistan has introduced a postgraduate programme that is delivered entirely online. “As the halal industry has very diversified topics, it took us two years to cover all the silos of the industry,” Zubair said. “But we must admit that halal training, be it online or offline, is definitely lacking behind Islamic banking. Only a handful of universities offer Masters level programmes, and these are mostly in Malaysia and Indonesia.”

The Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) offers traditional, online and blended learning. Professor Dr Faridah Hassan, Director, iHalal Management and Science, UiTM, stated that differing interpretations by madhabs (editor's note: schools of thought) could, for example, can be sensitive. “I would suggest for developers to develop modules for the region you are in. Once you go further, the content has to be generic enough to apply to everyone,” she said.

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