Chairman Punjab Education Foundation (PEF) Raja Muhammad Anwar said that the Foundation will spend Rs 6.5 billion for imparting quality education among the poor children of the 36 districts of Punjab in the next fiscal year. He was briefing the education reporters on the four year performance of PEF on Tuesday. He said that foundation has provided free education to the 1.5 million deserving students of the 36 districts of Punjab.
He said the Foundation has compiled a data bank of the students which will be helpful in making education policies. He appealed to the parents that they should send their children to the schools because education is the only way that leads to prosperity. Raja Anwar said that the teachers' training programmes help to provide highly trained and professionally competent teachers for more than 60 thousand schools in the province.
An inspiring and informed teacher is the most important school-related factor influencing students' achievements and developing self-confident and motivated leaders of tomorrow. He said that PEF launched various teachers' training programmes to help improve pedagogical skills, confidence and class-room management abilities of low-cost school teachers in the province. More than one lakh 15 thousand teachers of such low-cost schools have already been trained by the PEF in the province and this has helped to strengthen the private sector at the grass-roots level, he maintained.