Education is top priority of incumbent govt, says Wani

Islamabad:Education is among this government’s top priorities, said Mohyuddin Ahmad Wani, Secretary Ministry of Federal Education and Professional Training, while speaking as the chief guest at the graduation ceremony of the 9th Cohort of Teach for Pakistan Fellows held the other day.

Speaking on the occasion he said The Teach for Pakistan model inspired me to design a Tech Fellows Program in Gilgit Baltistan during my stint there before I took up my current assignment; I urge Pakistan’s development partners to help Teach For Pakistan expand its Fellowship program all over the country? The occasion also marked the completion of the Education Fellows project, a partnership between the Education Ministry, Teach For Pakistan, and the UKs Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO). Under this project, 87 teaching Fellows, the brightest graduates of top-tier universities, taught around 8000 students for two years in 47 public schools in underserved, rural areas on Islamabad’s outskirts. “The Education Fellows project has provided a blueprint for replication and scaling up the best practices in teacher recruitment, training, M&E, accountability, and coaching support for systemic change in education,” said Khadija Bakhtiar, CEO of Teach For Pakistan.