Teachers shortage derails BS programmes

Administrative gaps jeopardise pupils' academic future in Haripur's KTS

HARIPUR:

The declaration of an education emergency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa did not lead to any substantial results as the situation in schools and colleges continues to worsen.

Only recently, three out of five BS programmes in Khalabat Government Girls Degree College were frozen due to the shortage of staff. These included the English, Urdu and political science programmes.

According to the college administration, students were not admitted to any of the three programmes during the current new admission session due to non-availability of staff. Parents and citizens expressed serious concern over the closure of the long-running BS programmes at Khalabat Girls Degree College.

Citizens worry that if this trend continues, Khalabat Degree College may become non-operational. "Government representatives and the KP Provincial Government should immediately take immediate steps to make all five long-standing BS programmes operational by meeting the shortage of staff of Government Girls Degree College Khalabat,"

While talking to the media, some parents said that former provincial minister Akhtar Nawaz Khan Shaheed founded the Girls Degree College in Khalabat for the education of female students who belonged to the dozens of villages and other areas of Khalabat and its surroundings. "Thousands of female students were equipped with the jewel of education," they said.

When the clerical management of the college was contacted, they communicated that as per the notification issued by the Higher Education Commission, three BS programmes, English, Urdu and Political Science were temporarily frozen due to lack of staff. These programmes will be resumed when staffing is available.

A large number of citizens and parents have demanded the government representatives of the Tehreek-e-Insaf provincial government to handle the shortage of staff in the Khalabat Government Girls Degree College and to reactivate the closed BS programmes. They want to see students get immediate admission to these programmes so that the educational future of the students can be saved.