Minister of State Engr Muhammad Baligh Ur Rehman attended the Inaugural Session of workshop for the master trainers on assessment at FBISE today.
Minister of State congratulated the chairman FBISE Dr. Ikram and his team for conducting this valuable workshop and specially thanked Prof Norman Reeds from university of Glasgow to participate in the workshop. He said that one could not deny the importance of training of the master trainers. They have an important role to play in building the base of a sound educational system.
We know that there are different systems of education as well as the teaching methods in Pakistan, stated the Minister. We see that a school teacher teaches conceptual learning to a Cambridge student while teaching the rote learning method to a matriculation student. And therefore we see a stark difference between the two students of two different systems which is very unfortunate, he lamented. We need to remove this difference in our teaching methods in order to secure the future of our students. Change cannot come in a day, to bring a change we all need to work together while sharing good practices with each other regardless of anything else because education is our collective responsibility. And I am happy to see representation of all boards across Pakistan here today, said the Minister.
Minister of State said that we should not expect much from teachers if we don’t train them and pay them well. Funding is very important in this regard and therefore Government of Pakistan gave Rs. 50 million for this project and we tend to utilize our own recourses as well to make this project more viable and successful.
State Minister CADD Dr. Tariq Fazal Chaudhry and Prof Reeds also shared their thoughts on the occasion. Prof Reeds said that curriculum should be developed according to the country’s own needs without imitating curriculum of any other country. Further he said that he is glad to see such dynamism, commitment and devotion towards education here in Pakistan. Dr. Tariq said that both the ministries (CADD and Ministry of Federal Education) are striving for the betterment of education and therefore they are one. He said he is glad to see representation of 24 boards out of 28 boards all over Pakistan here today. Further he added that basic issue in our country is incompetence, we didn’t give a proper atmosphere to our children to nurture their minds and therefore it is now our responsibility to give them quality education.
Event was attended by Federal Secretary Education, joint Secretary Education, officials of FBISE and other departments of the Federal Education Ministry.
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