For the children: Sukkur IBA trains teachers, officials to improve education

SUKKUR:

It is vital that we start thinking about what needs to be done to improve education as it affects the children of Sindh, said Sukkur Institute of Business Administration (IBA) director Nisar Ahmed Siddiqui.

While addressing the opening session of the 12-day capacity-building training of district education officers, headmasters and principals of teachers’ training institutes in the Sukkur IBA auditorium on Monday, Siddiqui claimed that 70 per cent of students in grade seven cannot solve basic arithmetic problems or write a few lines in English, Urdu or Sindhi.

“There are many aspects that are deteriorating the condition of education in the province,” said the university director. “Even though political influence and corruption are out of our control, we can still do a lot ourselves to improve the system.” The director then said that the country is producing ‘an army of unemployed persons’ and believed that it is the duty of the people of Sindh to provide children with education that is not based on copy culture, but rather on understanding and learning.

The training programme will be concluded on June 28. A total of 120 executive officers from the education department are participating in the training programme, during which they will be trained about human resource development, financial management, leadership and capacity building. The initiative was conducted on the request of education minister Nisar Ahmed Khuhro, who had asked the Sukkur IBA authorities to train education officers during his last visit to the varsity.

Published in The Express Tribune, June 17^th, 2014.