Master trainers important for sound education system: minister

Islamabad

Minister of State for Federal Education Baligh-ur-Rehman on Tuesday said that one could not deny the importance of training of the master trainers. They have an important role to play in building the base of a sound educational system.

He was speaking as chief guest at the workshop for training of Master Trainers on Assessment in the auditorium of Federal Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education here.

The minister congratulated FBISE Chairman Dr. Ikram and his team for conducting this valuable workshop and specially thanked Prof Norman Reeds from university of Glasgow for his participation in the workshop.

We know that there are different systems of education as well as the teaching methods in Pakistan, stated the minister. We see that a school teacher teaches conceptual learning to a Cambridge student while teaching the rote learning method to a matriculation student. And therefore we see a stark difference between the two students of two different systems which is very unfortunate, he lamented. We need to remove this difference in our teaching methods in order to secure the future of our students. Change cannot come in a day, to bring a change we all need to work together while sharing good practices with each other regardless of anything else because education is our collective responsibility. And I am happy to see representation of all boards across Pakistan here today, said the minister.

He said that we should not expect much from teachers if we don’t train them and pay them well. Funding is very important in this regard and therefore Government of Pakistan gave Rs50 million for this project and we tend to utilize our own recourses as well to make this project more viable and successful.