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PEF shortlists 110 schools from 21 districts

LAHOREPunjab Education Foundation (PEF) has shortlisted 110 partner schools from 21 different districts including Lahore and offered to join the pilot of PEF’s “School Improvement Programme” (SIP). PEF Managing Director Dr Aneela Salman, while addressing the launching ceremony of the pilot phase of the SIP on Thursday, said the programme

By our correspondents
May 15, 2015
LAHORE
Punjab Education Foundation (PEF) has shortlisted 110 partner schools from 21 different districts including Lahore and offered to join the pilot of PEF’s “School Improvement Programme” (SIP).
PEF Managing Director Dr Aneela Salman, while addressing the launching ceremony of the pilot phase of the SIP on Thursday, said the programme was aimed to help the academically weak partners to improve their academics and start providing quality education to the students.
These schools will be provided subject specialists who will perform multifarious duties in these schools to help improve the overall quality standards, she added.
Dr Aneela Salman further said under this programme, 38 Subject Specialists would be attached with 110 selected schools including 18 from Lahore adding these Subject Specialists would perform as Monitor, Facilitator and Trainer (MFT) so that the deficient schools could get rid of their weaknesses and subsequently improve the overall academic standards.
“Students are our best asset and it’s our joint responsibility to work for their betterment which will help them to excel in practical life. This will produce talented leadership to steer the country towards prosperity and development”, she added. The MD PEF also said the provision of quality education was PEF’s main focus and different steps had been taken to achieve this goal adding the PEF was playing an important role in achieving the objects of ‘Parho Punjab, Barho Punjab.’ Earlier, PEF Director (CPDP) Bushra Saeed Khan also spoke.