Fayyaz Ahmed Mughal
SHAFAQNA PAKISTAN (Shia News Agency)
Education is the issue that has been much stressed and must focused but still the situation of education in Pakistan on downturn. Several solutions have been proposed but could not uplift the standard of education. Directorate of staff development spending billions on training of teachers but still the results is very disappointing. When it comes to procurement first and foremost, is the need of depoliticisation. For decades, during the tenures of successive governments, political appointments in thousands were made in the education sector for teachers. The saying goes, ‘if you can’t get any job, be a teacher’. In order to purify the education, Government also needs to conduct the tests of the teachers so that who are given jobs on political basis could be identified because most of the teachers that are politically employed know nothing. Hence, there is an urgent need to halt any further political, non-merit based appointments of teachers, and weed out the existing rotten apples. Secondly, increasing the entry-level merit for primary school teachers is essential. The Punjab government, in its 2014 policy, required primary school teachers to at least have a Bachelor’s degree. The other provinces must follow suit too.
Third, to attract good candidates towards primary school teaching, there has to be an incentive in the form of higher salaries and clear career progression.
The problem is that primary teachers are given very low salaries as compared to elementary and high section. Furthermore, Government should stop pushing teachers against the wall and it should take steps to improve the self respect of the Primary teachers. Another most important thing that government needs to understand that teachers duty is to educate, to complete the syllabus with zeal and fervor not to be responsible for the results. Until and unless Government will continue to punish teachers for results, it cannot get the better results because it highly promotes the culture of copying and “ Parchi” in the examination centers.
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