The Sindh Education Department has reopened 1,467 closed schools in Sindh in the last two months. Provincial Minister for Education and Literacy Jam Mehtab Hussain Dahar has said that the work is in progress to reopen more schools soon. The closed schools were reopened in Sukkur, Larkana, Shaheed Benazirabad, Karachi, Mirpurkhas and Hyderabad. He said that quality education lies with qualified and competent teachers, and unless we have good teachers training institutions we cannot produce good teachers.
Presiding over a meeting of the Teachers Training Institutes under the Public Private Partnership (PPP) Framework, Jam Mehtab Hussain Dahar reiterated his commitment and said that the Sindh government was serious about providing improved delivery services in the education sector to all children across the province. For this purpose the Sindh government has sought the cooperation of the private sector.
He added that the Sindh chief minister has approved the establishment of the Sindh Curriculum Authority, help the government design the curriculum for fulfilment of modern needs.Eligible and competent persons will be hired from the open market, he said.
The meeting discussed many measures on how to improve teachers' training institutions as well as teachers' teaching capabilities and the curriculum because the participants of the meeting had agreed upon that the three components were more important. Unless and until they were not enhanced and improved, nothing could be achieved. The Secretary of Education, Schools, Jamal Mustafa Syed, Dr Nisar Ahmed Siddiqui from the IBA Sukkur, Dr Saeed Ahmed Ghani from the IBA Karachi and representatives of Iqra University, AKU, SZABIST and other officers also attended the meeting.
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