Punjab Education Foundation (PEF) Managing Director Dr Allah Baksh Malik has said there is a need to help the private sector before the country achieves a good experience of public-private partnership and better quality of education through better learning out-comes.
Malik's comments came in a briefing about the PEF assisted programme to a foreign delegation of Management Systems International (MSI) at the PEF Secretariat today. Frank Dall of the International Education Specialist (IES) and his consultant Shahid Malik were the guests.
He also said PEF was successful in the Punjab because of its low cost, trained teachers, financial and technical assistance, free textbooks, interactive sessions and QAT to assure the quality of education.
PEF is supplementing government efforts and want to synergies with government schools in future. About the MSI, Dall and Malik said MSI was founded in 1981 with the goal of improving public management and fostering entrepreneurship in the United States and around the world. As a firm and as individuals, we strive to promote and embody an unflagging commitment to excellence, transparency and personal responsibility and to leave a world better than the one we inherited.
On the future challenges, Dr Baksh said there was a great demand of Education Voucher Scheme of the foundation and the scheme should be expanded in urban slums of Lahore and other areas and districts of Province. He said PEF was facing shortage of funds despite allocation of funds in annual budget.
On the future of PEF, he talked about the pace of the Foundation and its expansion.
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