Sindh Senior Minister for Education Nisar Ahmed Khuhro (L) addressing the launching ceremony of Students Enrollment Drive at Government Pilot Higher Secondary School in Larkana. PHOTO: APP
Sindh Education Minister Nisar Ahmed Khuhro has stepped to the fore, warning the students of provincial education boards to “prepare well for their exams this time around because cheating will not be allowed.”
“The copy culture is destroying not only the education system, but Sindh’s younger generation as well,” said Khuhro, in a statement on Wednesday. “I will not tolerate this culture anymore as I give value to the future of our youth.” Meanwhile, Khuhro has vowed to personally supervise this year’s exams. “I have run out of patience with the prevailing mockery of the education system,” he added.
The assertion will be verifiable with the commencement of Matriculation exams in the month of April, when over 300,000 students will appear for their exams at around 250 examination centres in Karachi alone.
Earlier on August 23, 2013, the education minister had issued a one-month deadline after which the registration of private schools found violating the government rule of teaching Sindhi language as compulsory subject would be revoked. He had asked the education directors at the district level to prepare reports so that action could be taken against those violating the rule. The government’s deadline to the private schools, however, lapsed with no major effect.
Officials of the provincial education department later said they meet representatives of the Cambridge International Examinations and Aga Khan University Examinations Board, to ask them to comply with the government directives.
Published in The Express Tribune, January 16th, 2014.
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Sindhi language should be taught in schools in Sindh, not in Karachi. Karachi and Hyderabad (Sindh Urban) have been virtually treated like a separate province when it has come to distribution of resources, but treated as one when it comes to extracting resources. If the provincial government continues to implement its Sindhi nationalist agenda, then the already marginalised 'Sindh-urban' will be forced to separate from the rest of the province.