Ghani looks to improve college education
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Sindh Education Minister Saeed Ghani has called for utilising all possible resources to improve the quality of college education across the province, further stating "We want colleges, which are closed due to a shortage of teachers or for any other reason, to function under a public-private partnership."
Presiding over a meeting on Tuesday with college education department officials, he suggested holding training programmes for professors and teachers.
Moreover, Ghani advised posting bright students as paid internees at colleges situated in remote areas due to a dearth of teachers who could teach science.
Ghani stated that there should be model colleges, where trainings, at par with international standards, should be provided to students. He added that he would recommend to Sindh chief minister to provide government jobs to students pursuing a masters degree in education at those colleges.
Court hearing
Separately, the Sindh High Court rejected on Tuesday a report submitted by the Sindh government on the non-provision of timescale to 9,000 government lecturers and teachers and summoned Sindh college education secretary and Sindh education department additional secretary in personal capacity at the next hearing.
A two-member bench, comprising Justice Muhammad Ali Mazhar and Justice Yousuf Ali Sayeed, was hearing the case pertaining to the non-provision of timescale to lecturers and teachers.
Justice Mazhar, referring to the report submitted by the provincial government and addressing Sindh assistant advocate-general (AG), remarked, “Is it the same summary that was presented to Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah?”
He further inquired what had been achieved following the preparation of the report and what had been the progress on the formation of a committee on the matter, as promised by the government.
The petitioner’s counsel informed the court that the case had been under trial since 2010 but committee was formed much later on March, 2020.
At this, Justice Mazhar reprimanded the assistant AG and stated, “Stop wasting the court’s time and present a progress report.”
In turn, the assistant AG sought two weeks’ extension for submitting the report.
Published in The Express Tribune, August 19th, 2020.