Naya KPK | Initiatives & Progress

[Sohaib]

Re: Naya KPK | Initiatives & Progress

@Aceones

bhai jaan i’ve heard about it, read about it, watched the pressers and its a good thing, but you need to know enrollment without making space for more students to come in will actually worsen the already worst situation. There was a report just couple days ago that about 50% (close to 2 million) of students do not even have desks in KP students (situation is not much different in Punjab, where schools have been turned into cattle forms). now these new 2.5 million students. will make total of about 4 million without place to sit!

same is the situation in Punjab. if you talk about enrollment drive, if you are following news, Punjab has already enrolled more than 1 million students this year. where are we going without improving existing facilities and opening more schools etc? only enrolling students will not solve the problem.

KP govt wants to have uniform syllabus in all govt/private schools, thats awesome, but how? they need to more than double the teachers first. and give them quality training to teach Aitchison curriculum from 2014 as Khattak sahab promised. That doubling the teacher is the requirement as of today’s number of students, enrolling 2.5 million more will triple it if not more.

good thing about KP education policy is introducing biometric attendance system with centralized control/ reporting. will at least ensure existing teachers are doing what they are supposed to do. then increase teachers and school facilities, teacher training, open more schools enrollment will automatically follow without much effort.

when parents will see their children are actually getting taught in school and not just wasting time, and teacher is not just beating them up, when they get quality education, then introduction of a stipend as small as couple of hundreds will bring in hoards of students with no special enrollment drive.

All the related issues will fall in place. KP education minister Atif Khan (a very humble young man I must say) is already on the case to improve teachers’ presence (biometric attendance) as well as upgrading school system as you said. Plus Dr Ata Ur Rahman will be an advisor to KP govt soon (I heard it in news) so its not like they are just making empty slogans anymore. It’s something meaningul starting from an enrolment drive.

You mentioned Punjab enrollment drive. The difference here is symbolic. Whole top management of the province including the party head was there at KP launch underlining the importance. Plus the allocation of punjab education budget pales in comparison to KP’s hence less money to upgrade schools (and of course danish schools mayn bhi tu paisay janay hayn)

Now to second thing, how will this education system be made uniform? It is not going to be a one day process unfortunately. It is gonna start from next academic year and it HAS to be a gradual shift over the next three years. Even in UK, they have public private schools where facilities differ but education syllabus stays the same.

We all agree its a gigantic task. but someone gotta do this and take the first step. Yesterday Mujeeb Ur Rahman shami said “Imran Khan’s concept is very clear about education, he knows how nations are built and if you look around the globe, all great nations have uniform education system”