Improving education standard government’s priority number one

Rana Mashood finalises 16 strategic goals for next four years

Keeping in view the marvelous success achieved in implementing the first phase of Punjab School Reforms Roadmap, 16 new strategic goals for the next four years to improve the quality of education besides enhancing magnitude of students have been finalised. These goals also include ensuring fairness in the examination system which will be able to test analysis ability of the students, not merely the ability to recall.

This new strategy was finalised in a meeting chaired by Punjab Education Minister Rana Mashhood Ahmed Khan. Special representative of British department for International Development (DFID) Sir Michael Baber, DFID Head of Mission Richard Montgomery, Barbara Payne, Country Head Salman Ahmed and the members of Punjab School Reforms Roadmap Team including Christa Rottensteiner, Katlyn Donnely and others participated in the meeting. Punjab School Education Secretary Abdul Jabbar Shaheen, Literacy Secretary Dr Pervez Ahmed Khan, Information and Culture Secretary Momin Agha, Punjab Textbook Board Chairman Nawazish Ali, Punjab Examination Commission CEO Nasir Iqbal Malik, Punjab Educational Foundation MD Dr Aneela Sulman, PMIU Project Director Asim Iqbal, DSD Project Director Ehsan Bhuttha and other relevant senior officers were also present.

Mashhood vowed to implement the future model of school reforms in Punjab and ensured that the development frame work of this future roadmap will be fully funded by the Punjab government in different phases. The new strategic targets include enrollment of further 1.5 million out of school children and construction of 70 thousand new classrooms in the public sector schools in the province. Under the revised goals plan, over 0.6 million school teachers will be imparted on-the-job training by the master trainers in their own schools. Besides this, the Directorate of Staff Development will be upgraded to the extent that it would become a model institution at par with National Institute of Education, Singapore as far as quality is concerned. The meeting decided to develop world-class textbooks, learning materials and teacher guides in line with a revised curriculum matching the international benchmarks. A battery of leading 100 Pakistani educationists will also be prepared to join the administration of the Education department at district level as an increase up to the tune of three times in the number of educational administrators at district level was on cards.

Improving education standard government’s priority number one

Rana Mashood finalises 16 strategic goals for next four years

LAHORE

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Keeping in view the marvelous success achieved in implementing the first phase of Punjab School Reforms Roadmap, 16 new strategic goals for the next four years to improve the quality of education besides enhancing magnitude of students have been finalised. These goals also include ensuring fairness in the examination system which will be able to test analysis ability of the students, not merely the ability to recall.

This new strategy was finalised in a meeting chaired by Punjab Education Minister Rana Mashhood Ahmed Khan. Special representative of British department for International Development (DFID) Sir Michael Baber, DFID Head of Mission Richard Montgomery, Barbara Payne, Country Head Salman Ahmed and the members of Punjab School Reforms Roadmap Team including Christa Rottensteiner, Katlyn Donnely and others participated in the meeting. Punjab School Education Secretary Abdul Jabbar Shaheen, Literacy Secretary Dr Pervez Ahmed Khan, Information and Culture Secretary Momin Agha, Punjab Textbook Board Chairman Nawazish Ali, Punjab Examination Commission CEO Nasir Iqbal Malik, Punjab Educational Foundation MD Dr Aneela Sulman, PMIU Project Director Asim Iqbal, DSD Project Director Ehsan Bhuttha and other relevant senior officers were also present.

Mashhood vowed to implement the future model of school reforms in Punjab and ensured that the development frame work of this future roadmap will be fully funded by the Punjab government in different phases. The new strategic targets include enrollment of further 1.5 million out of school children and construction of 70 thousand new classrooms in the public sector schools in the province. Under the revised goals plan, over 0.6 million school teachers will be imparted on-the-job training by the master trainers in their own schools. Besides this, the Directorate of Staff Development will be upgraded to the extent that it would become a model institution at par with National Institute of Education, Singapore as far as quality is concerned. The meeting decided to develop world-class textbooks, learning materials and teacher guides in line with a revised curriculum matching the international benchmarks. A battery of leading 100 Pakistani educationists will also be prepared to join the administration of the Education department at district level as an increase up to the tune of three times in the number of educational administrators at district level was on cards.