Sindh Wants to enroll 800,000 Students in Schools this year
Syed Sardar Ali Shah, the minister of education for Sindh, declared that over 800,000 new students are expected to be admitted to the state for the current academic year.
As a special guest at a Sindh Education Department event held on Monday at a posh hotel in Karachi, he stressed that headmasters will be expected to plant trees in their schools as part of their job responsibilities.
According to Shah, Sindh’s goal for this year is to raise the enrolment ratio by more than 800,000, with an emphasis on community involvement to improve the efficiency of the school enrolment process.
The “Launch of Sindh Enrolment & Retention Drive 2024-25” event was attended by the Sindh Secretary of School Education, district officers of the Education Department, Abdullah Fadal, a representative of UNICEF Pakistan, K Abid Gill of JICA, Director Operations NCHD Humira Hashmi, Chief Field Officer UNICEF Prem Bahadur Chand, and others.
Several suggestions were made emphasising the value of community involvement in order to maintain and grow Sindh’s school enrolment. The goal for this year’s enrolment in Sindh has been increased from 800,000 to 900,000, according to Minister Sardar Ali Shah.
He pointed out that over 7,000 schools had reopened and been reactivated as a result of Sindh’s efforts to address the teacher shortage. The speaker further emphasised that, as of right now, 5.2 million students in Sindh attend government schools, 4 million attend private schools, 927,000 attend schools run by the Sindh Education Foundation, and 57,000 receive non-formal education.
The state is mandated by the constitution to provide free education to children between the ages of five and sixteen. Social collaboration is critical given the current resource restrictions and other issues. Sindh’s enrolment push is scheduled to start on August 16 and will make use of all available resources to ensure a successful outcome.
The minister of education further underlined that in addition to managing the school, headmasters will be crucial in involving the community, especially in terms of guaranteeing children’s enrolment and assisting with their continued education in partnership with parents.
In addition, the headmasters’ performance review will take into account their obligation to plant trees in schools.
At the occasion, representatives from JICA, UNICEF, and other partner organisations gave their opinions and recommendations. Subsequently, the minister of education examined scientific models that pupils from different government schools had displayed and gave them credit for their work. The Sindh Education Department’s recent improvements were also applauded by foreign and other partnering organisations.
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