LAHORE
The role of Punjab Education Foundation (PEF) in building an educated society is very important as it is helping the low income families in education of their children.
The officers of this foundation should; therefore, work proactively to help in achieving the goals of education-promotion agenda of the provincial government. This will also ensure equitable access to the fundamental right of education by the children of indigent strata.
PEF Managing Director Tariq Mahmood said this while presiding over a meeting with newly-recruited staff at his office on Wednesday, according to a handout issued here. DMD (Ops) Tariq Rafiq was also present on the occasion. He said that PEF was vigorously pursuing the agenda of promotion of education through its partnering schools who had been directed to play their role in achieving hundred percent enrolment by 2018.
Earlier, PEF MD Tariq Mahmood presided over weekly coordination meeting at his office to review growth of educational programmes. He hoped that teachers training programme, planned in collaboration with the Directorate of Staff Development (DSD), would improve teaching capacity of partners’ teachers, besides educating them about new concepts in school education. The meeting was told that partner schools had been told to follow the directions of the Punjab government about schools’ security and to ensure that prescribed security measures had been adopted.
The meeting was also told that textbooks distribution activity was going on smoothly and books’ supply to 154 schools in Kot Addu tehsil would be started today (Thursday). Books supply to school partners is continued at tehsil level in Multan and Dera Ghazi Khan.
Meanwhile, PEF Chairman Qamar-ul-Islam Raja acted as ‘review panellist’ for presentation on primary education in Sheikhupura district at National Management College (NIPA). On the occasion, he apprised the participants about the efforts of education promotion through Punjab Education Foundation.