KARACHI: Sindh Education and Literacy Minister Jam Mehtab Hussain Dahar said on Tuesday that issues of teachers’ training institutions would soon be addressed and the proposal to outsource these institutions to enhance their quality was under consideration.
He said this while presiding over the 11th meeting of the Board of Governors (BoG) of Sindh Teacher Education Development Authority (STEDA).
Jam Mehtab Hussain Dahar expressed his strong reservations about the low number of students enrolled in the institutions and asked the officers concerned to increase this number.
It was also decided that financial assistance should be provided to those wanting to receive the teachers’ training, that the number of teachers to provide this training should be increased and that these trainings should be carried out in cluster hub schools.
Dahar asked those present to adopt modern rules so as to hire market-based staff for the purpose. He said, “Government universities should send recommendations of their students for endowment fund scholarship and STEDA should be made more effective”.
School Education Secretary Iqbal Hussain Durrani, STEDA Executive Director Abdul Majeed Bhurt, Sindh Bureau of Curriculum and Extension Wing (BoCEW) Director Mushtaque Ahmed Shahani, Provincial Institue of Teachers Education (PITE) Director General Qamar Shahid Siddiqui and Hyderabad Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (BISE) Chairman Dr Muhammad Memon also attended the meeting.
