The Punjab Education Foundation (PEF) has planned to provide free education to 2.62 million destitute students through 5544 PEF partner schools in Punjab under the foundation-assisted schools programme to ward off ignorance and open doors of education for the children of the unprivileged strata. PEF is already spending Rs 5 billion during the current financial year for the purpose.
This was stated by Chairman Punjab Education Foundation (PEF) Raja Muhammad Anwar while briefing the three-member delegation of Department for International Development (DFID) of the British government, at his office on Thursday. Chairman PEF said that besides providing free education, PEF is also imparting capacity building to the low cost private sector school teachers & administrators at their door steps and helping in improving pedagogical skills, content knowledge and school improvement plans.
He disclosed that the PEF plans to provide 5 PCs per school working in public-private partnership with the foundation. "This initiative is important to provide awareness about IT and its use in the educational institutes will bridge the digital divide in the society," he hoped.
Anwar said the PEF is expected to complete the teachers training programme of all the partner schools by June. Education is the basic right of every child and government is ensuring that no child is deprived of this right because of poverty or any socio-economic vulnerability, he added.
Concluding, he said PEF is like an educational motorway where innovative ideas help in nation building, as no nation can progress and prosper without a vibrant educational system commensurate with the changing needs to develop future leaders capable of leading the country well.
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