The provincial government has started work on eight new universities in line with PTI government’s agenda of bringing about reforms in the education sector, Punjab Chief Minister Sardar Usman Buzdar has said.
Arsalan Haider
Administrative matters related to public sector universities and colleges across Punjab are being greatly influenced by a blue-eyed officer in Punjab HED (Higher Education Department), The Academia learnt on Tuesday.
The Annual Status of Education Report 2018 (ASER) for Punjab was launched in Lahore on Monday, with figures quoted by researchers showing promising improvements in education sector of the country’s most populous province.
Provincial Minister for School Education Murad Raas has proposed n all-encompassing ‘education tower’ to bring all matters and personnel related to education in the province under a single roof.
The Punjab School Education Department (SED) has called a meeting of the District Education Authorities (DEAs) chief executive officers (CEOs) of all the 36 districts of the province to take stock of the progress made on several initiatives as well seek suggestions from district education heads for upcoming programmes.
The highly ambitious and ‘first-of-its-kind’ Higher Education Policy for Punjab has been delayed for six months. The awaited policy, whose launch was earlier expected in December, will now be finalized by June 2019.
Punjab Minister for Higher Education Raja Yassir Humayun has said the government planned to take immediate steps to identify the challenges and paucities faced by the higher education sector of Punjab and implement relevant reforms.
Many government schoolteachers in Punjab got a surprise on Wednesday afternoon when they started receiving messages via social media that a new transfer policy has been put in place. Along with the messages, a detailed policy document was also circulated and shared among teachers.
Stakeholders higher education sector of Punjab have been taken by surprise by a news item published in an Urdu daily that claimed that the new PTI government, under Punjab Higher Education Minister Raja Yasir Humayun Sarfraz, has decided in principle to abolish the Punjab Higher Education Commission (PHEC). The news item, however, proved fake when a clarification was issued by the minister’s office and PHEC.
The new provincial government has decided to look into and alter the legislation governing Punjab’s private schools . The law for private schools in Punjab, The Punjab Private Educational Institutions (Promotion & Regulations) (Amendment) Act 2017, is likely to be altered to accommodate the PTI government’s agenda of reforms.