Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah has said that he was trying to improve overall education system right from the primary to university level and to make the boards efficient in taking the examination and declaring results.
“I know there are lots of problems in the education system of the public sector, but my government is taking drastic measures to improve the system.” This he said while talking to media at Dawood Foundation Public School at Bahadurabad, where he went to visit a science exhibition organised in foundation’s public school today (Friday).
He said that he had declared an emergency in the education sector with the objective to improve the performance of schools, colleges and universities operating in the public sector, along with developing communication skills of the teaching staff.
“Yes, there are some important positions vacant in universities, boards and directorates which would be filled shortly,” he said. Sindh CM said that punctuality of teaching staff in the schools alone was not enough, but their [teachers] capacity building is badly required and “we have to inculcate their [teachers] willingness to involve themselves in a teaching process, for which, civil society, our educationists and media have to play their respective role vigorously,” he said.
“Once Narayan Jagannath Vaidya (NJV) High School was a top class school, where leading politicians and lawyers like Hafeez Pirzada and others received education, but now we are working to restore its previous educational glories,” he said.
Earlier, the chief minister was received by Engro Chairman and Dawood Foundation’s Hussain Dawood when he reached their foundation school at Bahadurabad.
He visited the stalls set up by students and stalls of 28 different companies set up in the courtyard of the school. He visited a stall where coal energy was being generated and he showed his interest. He also showed a great interest in a solar-energy car.