Modern education system with sophisticated computer applications should be adopted to boost learning skills of the students, particularly in D.G. Khan, Rajanpur, Multan, Khanewal, Bahawalpur and other districts having lowest literacy rate, experts said.
Punjab government could establish state-of-the art schools to promote education at a large scale in the cities with a grant of $148million, allocated by USAID for the education and literacy projects in the province. This project could be a turning point for children unable to get quality education due to lack of funds, particularly in southern Punjab.
Education experts opined that at a time when funds for education are scarce, the reach or footprint of USAID in the sector could be enhanced enormously through use of proper technology. The aim set by education planners should be to optimise usage of funds in the education sector.
They also recommended that basic computer training should be incorporated at the primary and secondary level of education in all the cities of Pakistan. Setting up of computer labs will increase cost of schools manifold as thousands of computer systems would be required for scores of students, however, cutting edge technologies like desktop virtualisation has made it easier to save expense, space and energy, they maintained.
They recalled that Punjab government, through prudent use of funds last year, demonstrated that high-tech computer labs could be set up using desktop virtualisation technology at affordable cost in secondary schools of the largest province of the country.Elaborating, education experts said virtual desktops saved thousands of units of electricity as multiple seat computer labs could be set up using 2-3 CPUs, which can be virtualised to provide computing access to 10-20 persons at a time. It is because of this school computerisation plan that Punjab is connected through Internet to the world at the district and tehsil level.
Now, 50,000 computers being purchased for the schools could be converted into 300,000 to 1.5 million seats by deploying desktop virtualisation technology, they added. They hoped that the use of new technology in computer labs will curtail overhead expenses of the government significantly. It would also help save 80-90 percent of electricity expenses of schools and training institutes as compared to ordinary set ups of computer labs.-PR
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