In Sindh, children do not have the resources to study after fifth grade, provincial minister

Karachi: Sindh Education Minister Syed Sardar Shah said that the majority of the children in the province stop their education after the fifth grade.

While talking to the media in Karachi, he said that after the primary, the education system is cut off, the main reason being that there are no schools to enroll in the sixth grade, 36,000 of the 40,000 schools are primary schools and 4,000 schools. There are post-primary, including higher secondary schools. How will four schools carry the burden of 36,000 schools? 20 percent of children have never seen school.

Education Minister Syed Sardar Shah said that there has been nepotism in private schools, on which I also held meetings and directed that free education should be provided to 10 percent of poor children according to the law, but it is not implemented.

He said that the private schools also had concerns that the fees will have to be increased. In such inflation, if 10 percent of the students are given relief, then the fees of 90 percent of the students will have to be increased. The education minister said that many private schools have been closed due to the corona virus, which has had negative effects on children, while 20 thousand schools in Sindh have been completely destroyed due to floods, while 13 thousand schools are not capable of teaching children. However, the Sindh government will allocate a budget for education in the budget of the current financial year and we have planned to restore 2000 schools.

The provincial education minister said that this is the problem of every province in the country that there is a burden of salaries and pensions and in the coming times we will not be able to buy even chalk with our own resources, there will be teachers but there will not be desks and chalk. He further said that even if the teaching license of teachers expires, they can work on contract as well. In future, they will work on contract model.

Sindh Education and Culture Minister Syed Sardar Ali Shah has said that the Sindh government is taking a revolutionary step for reforms in the field of education. This will benefit the entire education system apart from the teacher and the student.

He said that existing teachers can also get promotion in their grade by getting teaching license which will be recruited on priority basis in private schools. Recruiting more than 60,000 teachers on merit in Sindh in relation to education reforms was a big challenge which was successfully accomplished due to the serious efforts of the provincial government of the People’s Party.

He said that the license policy will be of great benefit to continue the process of training and continuous learning of merit teachers, while working in collaboration with Stida Board (Sindh Teachers Education Development Authority), Aga Khan and Durbin. In which serious efforts on teacher education, teacher training and licensing will continue.

Syed Sardar Shah said that Sindh has always played a prominent role in the country’s exemplary legislation, Sindh is the first province to make a teaching policy, other provinces should also work on the license policy for the improvement of education in Pakistan. Syed Sardar Shah said that the child spends a lot of time with a teacher, it is important for us to work on the teacher’s capacity, not only the teaching department of the license can be standardized and improved, but also the teachers can be developed. And a policy has also been made to give other incentives.

He said that a third party test will be conducted for the license, those who pass the test will be promoted to grade 16. To teach the child, the teacher should be good enough to teach the children in any challenging environment. The provincial minister said that after the recruitments, more than 5000 closed schools have been opened due to shortage of teachers, while more than 400,000 new children have enrolled in government schools.

He said that the number of out-of-school children in Sindh is very less compared to other provinces. To a question, Sardar Shah said that STEDA is not being run by the government alone, we are running the STEDA Board, with social and private representation, which is autonomous in its decisions to improve the quality of teachers and maintain merit. Is.

The provincial education minister said that the license policy will be made applicable in public as well as private sector. On this occasion, the head of Zindagi Trust and social personality Shehzad Rai said that teaching is a science in terms of understanding the child’s mind. It will be easier to understand with the help of teaching education, other provinces should also adopt the teaching license process, unless the public schools are in order, the people cannot be educated.

Shahzad Roy suggested to the young generation that now students should start doing B.Ed and M.Ed. Farid Panjwani, Dean of the Institution of Education Development of Aga Khan University, said that just as doctors are qualified to practice medicine after getting a license and it is regulated, similarly teachers are required to regulate a quality teacher after the licensing policy. Help will be available. On this occasion, Secretary School Education Sindh Ghulam Akbar Laghari, the head of Zindagi Trust Shehzad Roy, the well-known social personality, Farid Panjwani, Dean of the Institution of Education Development of Aga Khan University and others were also present.