Performance review: Senior education officials to ‘adopt’ primary schools
He said the education high-ups used to prepare reports about the condition of schools without even visiting them.
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RAWALPINDI:
Punjab education department has asked district education officers and high school heads to ‘adopt’ two primary schools each to improve their on-campus facilities and teaching standards.
The move is aimed to improve public primary schools in the province’s rural areas, which critics say have been a neglected sector.
Executive district officers (EDO) education, district officers, deputy district officers, assistant district officers and headmasters of high school will select two primary schools each which they would visit twice a week.
The officials will examine facilities and teaching standards, and prepare a report.
They will file a report to the education secretary every month about the problems facing the primary schools. They will also check security measures, teachers capability and attendance.
The decision came after Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif took note of the reports of poor condition of primary schools, particularly in rural Punjab.
A senior officer at Rawalpindi district education department told The Express Tribune that chief minister reprimanded the education secretary for sending him “all okay” reports about the schools.
The official said that around 70 per cent schools in the province still lacked proper security arrangements.“Only a few schools in Rawalpindi have taken proper security measures,”he said.
He said the education high-ups used to prepare reports about the condition of schools without even visiting them.
Teachers have welcomed the decision and saying it would improve conditions at schools.
“Primary schools have been the worst victim of official negligence,” said Punjab Teachers Union Rawalpindi district president Hamid Ali Shah.
Published in The Express Tribune, February 8th, 2015.
Punjab education department has asked district education officers and high school heads to ‘adopt’ two primary schools each to improve their on-campus facilities and teaching standards.
The move is aimed to improve public primary schools in the province’s rural areas, which critics say have been a neglected sector.
Executive district officers (EDO) education, district officers, deputy district officers, assistant district officers and headmasters of high school will select two primary schools each which they would visit twice a week.
The officials will examine facilities and teaching standards, and prepare a report.
They will file a report to the education secretary every month about the problems facing the primary schools. They will also check security measures, teachers capability and attendance.
The decision came after Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif took note of the reports of poor condition of primary schools, particularly in rural Punjab.
A senior officer at Rawalpindi district education department told The Express Tribune that chief minister reprimanded the education secretary for sending him “all okay” reports about the schools.
The official said that around 70 per cent schools in the province still lacked proper security arrangements.“Only a few schools in Rawalpindi have taken proper security measures,”he said.
He said the education high-ups used to prepare reports about the condition of schools without even visiting them.
Teachers have welcomed the decision and saying it would improve conditions at schools.
“Primary schools have been the worst victim of official negligence,” said Punjab Teachers Union Rawalpindi district president Hamid Ali Shah.
Published in The Express Tribune, February 8th, 2015.