Sunday 20 October 2013

Punjab govt blamed for low literacy campaigns such as universal primary education (UPE)

LAHORE: REPRESENTATIVES of public sector teachers’ associations criticising the held it responsible for deteriorating state of education sector and low literacy. They also termed campaigns such as universal primary education (UPE) and universal secondary education (USE) mere rhetoric in the absence of proper facilities and shortage of teachers at public schools.
The teachers and other educationists were speaking at a strategic  “Role of teachers’ unions in promoting  – Article 25-A” organised byIdara-e-Taleem-o-Aagahi (ITA), Institute for Professional Learning (IPL) and United Nations Educational Science and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO)at a  here on Monday. The representatives of different teachers’ associations Allah Bakhsh Qaisar and Rana Atta Muhammad talked about missing facilities and additional non-academic duties assigned to schoolteachers and termed the same as contributing factors behind increasing drop-out rate. Talking about UPE and USE, Allah Bakhsh Qaisar said it was not teachers’ responsibility to visit door-to-door to bring children to schools in order to increase enrollment. He suggested  should establish a separate department for this purpose if it was sincere to bring children to schools. He condemned Punjab government for taking action against teachers for students’ poor performance in Class-5 and Class-8 uniform examinations saying ironically the failed students were being promoted to next grades by the Punjab Examination Commission (PEC). Rana Atta said his association was rendering full support to the government in the UPE and USE campaigns but  infrastructure and missing facilities were biggest hurdles in retaining the students. He expressed concern over lack of teachers and other facilities at public schools.
UNESCO’S director Dr KK Nagata appreciated Punjab government’s efforts for the promotion of literacy and education saying it was the only province in Pakistan having a better budgeted literacy department. She also talked about quality issues and learning outcome. UNESCO director termed literacy as basic requirement for survival in today’s world saying the countries winning today were winning not because of natural resources but because of human resource. Meanwhile, addressing a function held in connection with International Literacy Day 2013 Secretary Literacy and Non-Formal Basic Education Punjab Dr Pervez Ahmad Khan said that Rs 589 million Punjab Workplace Literacy Project has been approved in 10 districts of Punjab. He said non-formal vocational middle schools with the cooperation of  will be established in four districts this year. Dr Pervez said Punjab government has launched a mega project named Punjab Accelerated Functional Literacy Project worth Rs 2,300 million. Punjab Education Minister Rana Mashhood was the chief guest on the occasion. Rana Mashhood said the successful holding of All Parties Conference (APC) has proved that the decisions regarding how to get rid of terrorism would be made in Pakistan and no foreign power would be allowed to decide the fate of Pakistan now.
‘Pervaiz stint golden era’: The PML-Q Punjab leaders, on the occasion of World Literacy Day, presented a factsheet about the performance of Punjab government in education sector and expressed displeasure, saying that due to unsuccessful experiments of the PML-N government, the goal of 100 percent literacy rate in Punjab could not be achieved by 2025 which was set for 2015.
According to a press release issued on Monday, the factsheet was presented by former Punjab Education Minister Mian Imran Masaud, Amir Sultan Cheema and Dr Muhammad Afzal. They termed the stint of Ch Pervaiz Elahi as a Punjab CM a golden period as far as promotion of education was concerned. They claimed that due to  policies of Ch Pervaiz Elahi, literacy rate in Punjab went up from 47 to 62 percent.
According to the PML-Q legislators, around 40 percent of schools are without basic facilities in the province but the government, they said, on the other hand was spending billions of rupees on Daanish Schools.
They said that due to poor policies of the Punjab government, 60 percent students failed the recent BA examination.
The PML-Q legislators criticised the previous five year polices of the PML-N government and said that thousands of in education department were lying vacant but nobody bothered to fill them. They also said that the incumbent Punjab government had withheld the funds of the literacy department since it came in power.
Wildlife lab at PU: Environmental Health and Wildlife Laboratory was inaugurated at the Punjab University’s Department of Zoology on Monday. Michelle Potts, regional director, education, South Asia, at British Council along with Muhammad Ali, project manager, Higher , British Council, inaugurated the lab.
The equipment purchased and the research sponsored by Transnational Educational Grant (TNE-308) was also on display on the occasion.Dr Muhammad Akhter showed the fossils fauna collected by the department and central laboratory facilities established in the department.Prof Dr Muhammad Akhter and faculty members were also present. thenews
Leaders of teachers associations and other educationists were speaking at a strategic dialogue “Role of teachers’ unions in promoting Right to Education – Article 25-A” organised by Idara-i-Taleem-o-Aagahi (ITA), Institute for Professional Learning (IPL) and United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco) at a local hotel.
Teachers’ leader Allah Bakhsh Qaiser said the government was continuously engaging teachers in many duties other than teaching but eventually punishing them for producing poor results.
Referring to enrolment campaign currently in session across Punjab, he said, teachers had been asked to go door-to-door and bring children to schools. He said teachers were being humiliated by people, when they knocked at their doors.
In Punjab Examination Commission examinations, he said, students were being promoted with star (grace marks), while teachers were being penalised for the same results. He also stressed that political interference should be stopped in the education sector.
Subject Specialist Association President Rana Atta also criticised the government for not providing missing facilities in schools and added that lack of infrastructure and missing facilities were biggest hurdles in retaining the students. He stressed that teachers should not be compelled to do out-door duties and instead let them focus on imparting of education.
The teachers’ leaders stressed that the government should establish a separate department for bringing out-of-school children to schools.
They stressed that the Unesco and ITA should organise teachers’ training to ensure that quality education could be imparted in classrooms.
Speaking on the occasion, educationist Dr Shahid Siddiqui regretted that a large number of school-going age children were not being given access to schools. He also stressed that literacy was not enough and added that education should be able to develop critical thinking as well as creative learning among students. He asked whether it should be enough to increase the number of literates without caring whether the literate person knew anything or not.
He said teachers’ role was pivotal in producing students who could think critically and challenge things.
Unesco country head Dr K K Nagata lauded Punjab government’s efforts for the promotion of literacy and education saying it was the only province in Pakistan having a full fledge literacy department and specific budget allocated for the promotion of literacy.
ITA Chairperson Dr Narmeen Hameed, School Education Department Deputy Secretary Qaiser Rasheed and others also spoke on the occasion. DAWN

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