North West Frontier Province Governor, Lieutenant General Ali Muhammad Jan Aurakzai (Retd) has stressed the need of taking concrete measures not only to promote quality education at school level in accordance with the present day needs but also to enable the students from Fata as well as remote areas of the province to have better opportunities of learning.
He was presiding over a meeting of the committee for creation for centres of excellence in Fata and province at Governor's House here on Thursday, which, he had created recently under the chairmanship of the Vice Chancellor, Hazara University.
The meeting was also attended by the provincial Chief Secretary, Sahibzada Riaz Noor, Additional Chief Secretary, Ghulam Dastagir Akhtar, Secretary to Governor, Azmat Haneef, provincial secretaries for Higher Education; Schools and Literacy, Establishments and Regulation departments; vice chancellors of NWFP University of Agriculture, Malakand University and Gomal University; principals of various semi-autonomous institutions; including Islamia Collegiate School, University Model School, University Public School; Peshawar Public School, Fazal-e-Haq College, Mardan, Scouts Cadet College, Battrasi, Abbottabad Public School, Vensam College, D.I.Khan, Durrani Public School, Bannu and Cadet College, Kohat.
Highlighting the idea of creating the committee, the governor said, no doubt, we have a number of quality educational institutions in certain numbers in the province, yet, he added, there is need to look into the possibility to develop such opportunities where our youth could be enabled to have access to the latest knowledge in various disciplines right from the beginning.
Apart from this, he added, we must also have to explore possibilities to develop such opportunities in Fata as well as remote districts of the province wherein the respective talented students could be provided quality education to enable them to contribute significantly in bringing qualitative change in the life of the people of the respective areas.
This, he added, is also must to ensure better lots of intake to the universities, which would ultimately lead to bring a change at the national level. Since, he remarked, different universities also had schools as their subsidiary institutions and constant efforts have to be made to further improve and upgrade their facilities. He also desired that committee should come out with necessary suggestions.
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