Uniform education policy to be introduced for public & private schools : Shafqat Mahmood

ISLAMABAD, Apr 18 (APP):The government has worked out a uniform education policy to ensure level-playing field for the students of public and private school system in the country, said

Federal Minister for Education Shafqat Mahmood on Thursday.

He said the Federal Ministry of Education and Professional Training was focusing on equitable education system wherein more or less all children will have access to a single uniform curriculum.

He was addressing the High-Achievers (Northern Region) ceremony of Beaconhouse School System at Convention Center.

Congratulating the distinction-holders of ordinary and advance level 2017-18 and their guardians, Shafqat Mahmood said parents did play central role in producing go-getters of the society as education was partly done at home and partly at educational institutions.

“Teachers should also be appreciated as students could not see the success day without their hard work and dedication,” he added.

He also lauded the efforts of Beacon house School System for bringing out talent of the country.

Dilating on the education system, he said there was a deteriorated situation in public sector schools when Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf came to power and since the day one, the ministry was striving to rectify the situation in this sector. “There are around 20 million children still out of schools and corrective measures are needed to enroll them,” he added.

He endorsed the observation of the apex court that the students of private and governments schools be ensure same facilities to achieve target of quality education in the country.

He criticized the past regimes for giving less focus to education, thus providing private schools system a space to flourish and get confidence of middle class.

The minister pointed out that the previous governments particularly allowed public educational institutions to go down which led to trust deficit with parents.

Executive Director of Beacon House School System Nasir Kasuri, giving an overview of the 2018 results for the Northern region, said as many as 764 high achievers were honoured for their accomplishments in the 2018 examinations.

He lauded the faculty for being the harbingers of excellence and change.

Nassir Kasuri believed that the job market would change immensely in the next two decades and the school has the objective to enable its students to meet upcoming challenges.

Talking to APP, an official of Beaconhouse school said that its students had attained 64 distinctions nationwide, with 9 Top in the World, 7 National Distinctions, 35 Regional Distinctions and 13 Best across Cambridge International distinctions.