Minister says PTI committed to providing quality education in Punjab

LAHORE: Minister for Schools Education Murad Raas has said the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government is committed to providing quality education in schools to ensure proper grooming of students.

He said his department is working on various educational reforms at a fast pace to meet the desired goals and the government is going to introduce an integrated database system soon.

The minister made these remarks while addressing a high-level meeting at Punjab Curriculum and Textbook Board Office regarding finalization of strategic reforms.

Different proposals related to the implementation of modern reforms in public schools came under discussion.

Under the comprehensive programme of schools reforms, bringing back out-of-school children, provision of quality education to the students in government-run schools, teachers’ training on modern lines, on-job capacity building of teachers, empowerment of school councils, provision of pleasant environment in schools and many other suggestions, including promotion of extracurricular activities, were also discussed during the meeting.

The participants of the meeting agreed that a comprehensive strategy should be adopted so as to provide world-class education in government schools.

Murad Raas said that SED is collecting all relevant data relating to schools, teachers, students and other staff to tabulate it at one place for future planning.

He said that the best practices of international standard will be introduced in public sector schools for provision of quality of education to all students.

Proposals regarding collection of data of out-of-school children from local government’s union councils also came under consideration. Special Secretary (Schools) Ghulam Fareed, concerned officers and educationists also attended the meeting.