Sindh and FATA lag behind rest of the country as far as science education is concerned, revealed a report released by Alif Ailan on Powering Pakistan for the 21st century: The State of Math & Science in Schools.
Citing this, Javed Hussain, head of Sindh Community Foundation, a civil society organization engaged in promoting girls' education in remote rural areas said that District Tando Mohammad Khan was the worst in this regard because of various reasons including poor infrastructure, unavailability of modern equipment and conventional methods of science education and incapacity of teachers to teach science with modern teaching techniques. Situation of science education is not better in boys' schools but girls' secondary schools lagged behind them.
He said that it was found during surveys that schools lacked of the science laboratories and modern science equipments, hence learning of the students of secondary and higher secondary classes in science subjects are very poor. Newly-appointed teachers lack capacity and understanding of modern science education techniques and methods to increase learning outcome of girl students in science subjects. Lack of science-related competitions among students in the secondary schools was also witnessed. In the district education's sector plan, to improve learning outcome of students is also a key target.
The senior teachers have very old teaching methods of science subjects and their approach does not reflect the modern scientific thinking, there is need to develop capacity of teachers in modern teaching methods regarding science subjects. He said that teachers training is also main component of quality education therefore training of the advanced concepts of science education was also needed alongside upgrading of teaching methods and such trained teachers should encourage the girls bout it.
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