The Archaeology and Anthropology Museum at Shah Abdul Latif University (SALU), Khairpur, celebrated International Literacy Day with an open forum on Monday. Students from the university as well as Model School and Sindh Children's Academy participated in the forum, titled 'How to Improve Literacy and the Education Rate in Sindh'. The event aimed to promote awareness about the social significance of literacy.
Museum director Prof Dr Mastoor Fatima Bukhari emphasised the need to increase the province's literacy rate. "There are four main stakeholders of literacy - students, teachers, parents and the administration - and these stakeholders are responsible for the declining standards of education," she said. She pleaded for education to be the top priority and urged policy makers to incorporate the opinions of students in the education policy.
"All development in society occurs because of education," said Dr Qasid Hussain Mallah, the chairperson of SALU's archaeology department. "The need of the hour is to improve the country's literacy rate."
Published in The Express Tribune, September 9th, 2014.
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