Education improving: Mashhood

LAHORE
Punjab Education Minister Rana Mashhood has said the province’s education system has seen substantial progress, however, a lot of work needs to be done, particularly on education quality.
He said this while chairing a meeting to review education reforms in the province. DCOs, EDOs and key officials of the Schools Education Department and affiliated agencies attended the meeting, the first in a series of consultative meetings to be held with different stakeholders to get input into the future of education reforms in government schools across the province.
Addressing the participants, Rana Mashhood reiterated that with more than 50,000 government schools, over 400,000 teachers and almost 11 million children enrolled, Punjab’s school system was the largest of its kind in the world and presented a unique challenge of scale and complexity.
Since the Punjab government launched its schools reforms programme in 2010, the system has seen substantial progress in particular in terms of student and teacher attendance rates improving significantly.