CM attributes decline in standard of education to different systems

Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Pervez Khattak has attributed the gradual national decline in education to three different layers of education in the country. At the moment we have public sector schooling, private sector, English medium schooling and Madrassa institutions and all three lead to different directions when we talk about the uniformity and the quality of education to lay the very foundations of national development, he added.
He was addressing the 10th meeting of the Inter-Provincial Education Ministers Conference here at Peshawar. The conference was also attended by Federal Minister of State for Education, Muhammad Baleegh ur Rehman; Punjab Education Minister, Raza Ali Gilani; Azad Kashmir Education Minister, Iftikhar Ali Gilani; Gilgit Baltistan, Muhammad Ibrahim Senai; Senator Rozeena Khalid and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Minister, Muhammad Atif; Mushtaq Ghani and government officials from both federal and provincial governments.
The Chief Minister said that mainstreaming the marginalized segment of the society was even more difficult when we have different streams of education, the one for the rich, the second for the poor and the third for the marginalized who stand nowhere and could hardly find place in the society. He said we have come to a point where uniformity of curriculum and instruction should be taken care of in the first go, the existing standard of education, inconsistent policies for education be revisited and uniformity should be brought about, he added.
Pervez Khattak said that the existing education system created a widening schism between the rich and the poor. The rich had an easy access to quality education and the poor relegated to a system of education which guides them nowhere. Even the present system of education was the root cause of class system in the society making the rich, richer and the poor, poorer. He said his government was the first ever government that made legislation for the compulsory teaching of Nazira up to primary and Quran with translation up to higher secondary level throughout the province. This step his government took to bring the youth closer to the religion and its injunctions.
Chief Minister said that his government policies were being appreciated by the whole of Pakistan because his government stood committed to the bright future of the youth. We considered the youth to be the master of their own destiny and even ruling their country in future and then no one would ever dare usurping their rights.