RECORDER REPORT

LAHORE: Provincial Minister for Schools Education Murad Raas has said that Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) is committed to providing quality education in schools for ensuring proper grooming of the students. In this context, the department is working fast on various educational reforms to meet desired goals. We are also introducing an integrated database system soon. He expressed these views while addressing a high-level meeting at Punjab Curriculum and Textbook Board Office regarding finalization of strategic reforms. Different proposals related to implementation of modern reforms in public schools came under discussion. Under the comprehensive program 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 meeting agreed that a comprehensive strategy should be adopted so as to provide world-class education in government managed schools.

Provincial Minister 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. Murad Raas said that best practices of international standard will be introduced in public sector schools for provision of quality of education to the students. Proposals regarding collection of data of out-of-school children from local government’s union councils also came under consideration.