“If the proposed bill is passed from the provincial assembly, it will give a chance to the politicians to strengthen their influence in transfers and postings of teachers," says Nazar Hussain. PHOTO: FILE
The National Education Council (NEC) has rejected the proposed bill to be tabled in Khyber- Pakhtunkhwa Assembly for the establishment of regulatory body, terming it as a step towards nationalisation of private sector education system.
Addressing a press conference at the Peshawar Press Club, NEC Deputy Chairman Nazar Hussain, Chamber of Education Female Wing Deputy Chairman Sema Jamil and Provincial Coordinator Fazal Hussain said that the government had not taken them in confidence while making the bill.
“If the proposed bill is passed from the provincial assembly, it will give a chance to the politicians to strengthen their influence in transfers and postings of teachers. This will be big loss to this sector,” Nazar Hussain informed.
He added that through the bill, the government wanted to take the authority of postings of teachers, their salaries and fee system even though they were neither a shareholder nor gave any fund to the private sector educational institutions.
Hussain further said that the government had already formed a law to control both state-run and private institutions and if there were any faults in it, they had to sort them out instead of forming another law. Moreover, he said that the proposed bill was against the Education for All International Declaration Thailand 1990.
Published in The Express Tribune, February 6th, 2013.
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These politicians of K-P has been sleeping for the last 5years and now they are talking education, the fact is they were minting the Provincial Education System and could not mint the private sector , well they are doing it now. One should look at the precarious and dismal conditions in the provincial funded schools, now they want to drag down the private education schools to their level. They are tripping over each other and want to see who could make more money by doing it. Shame on them.