Provincial Finance Minister Makhdoom Hashim Jawan Bakht has said that identification of transparent and standardized educational system is imperative for identifying teachers' qualification in the proposed law with regard to issuance of teaching license.
He stated this while presiding over a meeting to review future roadmap of schools education department to ensure quality education in government schools at CM Office here on Monday.
Minister Schools Education Murad Raas, advisor to CM Dr Salman Shah, provincial secretaries and others attended the meeting. Makhdoom Hashim Jawan Bakht said that a suitable mechanism would be devised for improving the capacity of women teachers through the platform of Quaid-e-Azam Academy for Educational Development.
The services of Punjab Education Foundation could also be solicited with regard to the establishment of model schools. It is hoped that Urdu teaching system at primary level will help in better educating the students along with elimination of rot method of learning.
He hoped that HR management information system will improve departmental performance in SED after the success of E-transfer program as the Insaaf Afternoon School Program has helped in increasing enrollment. The Insaaf Mobile School System would also boost literacy at the grassroots, he added.
He said SED should move forward with a departmental vision to harvest better results. He directed the SED officials to update the finance department about the need of required financial expenditures within the stipulated period of time for their programmes so that any delay may not hamper the programme targets.
Dr Salman Shah said that provision of quality education in government institutions was a serious problem and added that teachers had a fundamental role in this regard. "It is needed that the SED should explain its benchmarks and apprise about its present position. It should also tell that how many talented teachers it has and when this issue could be overcome," he added.
Murad Raas highlighted the reforms programme of the SED, adding that solution of teachers' job related problems were brought under one click by using latest technology so as to improve the quality of education in public schools under the new deal 2018-23 policy. This is aimed to help the teachers so that they could give full attention to teachings, he added.
Additional incentives were being given to reinvigorate the head teachers' role in addition to providing necessary trainings to them. The first phase of the project for improving the syllabus has been completed.
Similarly, Insaaf Afternoon Schools Programme is a success to overcome the dearth of schools and model schools project is being launched this year to improve the schools conditions.
Under Insaaf Mobile School System, the child labourers will be provided education 2 to 3 hours every day to a nearby place to help improve the literacy rate. Early childhood education programme was also being launched as it would motivate and encourage the small kids to attain education, he concluded.
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