Federal Education Minister Javed Ashraf Qazi has said that the government would promote technical education throughout the country in order to reduce skill gap among youths. He said this while inaugurating the Readers Club Scheme, reintroduced by the National Book Foundation (NBF) here on Thursday.
Addressing the participants, Javed Ashraf Qazi said that there is complete political will regarding the establishment of polytechnique institutes throughout the country.
He further said that much had been talked and done about the formal education, which seems to be purposeless taking future generation to nowhere.
Criticising the current educational system, he said it is meaningful for the advantaged ones who were fortunate enough to secure seats in professional colleges leaving behind thousands of students who could not take up desired courses because of the high merit and few seats.
The minister announced to introduce a counselling system for parents and students soon who would guide them in choosing and pursuing a certain course for their studies after the middle level.
He was of the view that parents force their children to only study subjects of IT, business administration, medical and engineering, which had a little capacity to accommodate the manpower.
Qazi also announced the Readers Club Scheme for the year 2003-04 and emphasised the importance of book-reading culture in the society.
He dismissed the impression that electronic media and Information Technology were responsible for the lack of reading culture in the country.
He urged the National Book Foundation to produce more books on science, technology and English literature.
He also directed the NBF to establish resource centres for authors, teachers, students and the general public, where in the first phase books on science and economy, wherever published throughout the world, should be made available in the centre for the benefit of the local readership.
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