LAHORE: Punjab Chief Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif has said that government is implementing a comprehensive programme for the development of school education.
Presiding over a high level meeting here on Monday, which discussed matters regarding improvement of school education, teachers' training, promotion of IT and others issues, he said that teachers' training programme was an important element of educational reforms roadmap as it was vital for quality education.
He said that schools reforms programme was yielding positive results and steps taken by the government were helping in raising the standard of education in the province.
He said that Pakistan's future depends upon education adding that Punjab government was paying attention to provision of missing facilities in schools and billions of rupees were being spent for this purpose.
He said that it was necessary to polish the creative abilities of the students. He said that use of modern technology could help in raising the teaching standards.
He said that IT labs have been set up in high schools at a cost of billions of rupees.
Shehbaz Sharif further said that laptops have been given to brilliant girl and boy students under a transparency policy and now a programme has been evolved to distribute tablets among the students of high schools.
He said that the future of the country was linked with quality education and it was necessary to impart modern knowledge to the young generation.
He said that children working on brick kilns have been enrolled in schools and elimination of child labour from hotels, workshops and petrol pumps was next target of the government.
Secretary Schools Education gave a detailed briefing on the measures for the promotion of quality education.
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