Federal Minister for Education Javed Ashraf Qazi said on Saturday that vocational centres would be established in the provinces to impart technical education to dropout children.
An overseeing body on technical education would also be formed after approval by the President General Pervez Musharraf, he said and added that the body consists of federal ministers for education, industries and labour.
The minister stated this in a meeting with Saadia S. Choudhry, Advisor to Chief Minister on Education/Donor Co-ordination/NGOs, at the BISE building here on Saturday. The Punjab Minister for Education Imran Masood was also present on the occasion.
They discussed matters concerning education, proposals to improve education standard and donors co-ordination as well.
The minister said they are considering various proposals to improve the education system and would soon give a presentation to the President on the overall performance of the education sector.
The federal minister said provinces would provide land as well as indicate the places where the vocational centres should be established while the federal government would fund and control them.
The minister stressed need for careful involvement of NGOs and launching of donors' projects in the education sector. He said they must be given guidelines keeping in view our social and religious values for launching education projects in any part of the country.
Javed Ashraf Qazi said there is a proposal to register NGOs with the education foundation while a regulatory body would monitor their working in the education sector. Donors would have to co-ordinate with the provincial education department while launching any education project, he added.
While stressing the need for teachers' personal education, he said they have suggested giving them monetary incentives to improve their education and performance. They should be given at least BPS-14 on induction, he maintained.
He said the President had approved Rs 7 billion grant to establish 240,000 literacy centres in the country under the Literacy Programme, but only Rs 700 million had so far been spent on the project.
"The whole structure was bad and we are revising it under which teachers would be given minimum Rs 3,000 pay and the department would pay the utility bills of the literacy centres," said the minister. "Similarly, the Rs 60 billion Education Sector Reforms Programme of the World Bank was suffering due to bad releases of funds. Now the bank would release the funds quarterly."
In order to formulate a unified curricula for the school/college students of English and Urdu medium, he said all the scientific subjects would be in English while the rest would be in Urdu. All the provinces had been instructed accordingly, he asserted.
The minister said he had tasked the federal board of intermediate and secondary education to gradually move to MCQ type and analytical question papers in the examination and complete this task by year 2007.
At the end, Advisor to the CM, Saadia S. Choudhry presented the Daily Lesson Plan Teacher Manual to the federal minister.
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