‘Varsities to help ensure merit-based recruitment’

The vacant posts in the education department will be filled by seeking assistance from the Institute of Business Administration (IBA), the Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Institute of Science and Technology (SZABIST) or any other reputed institution within two months in order to keep the recruiting process transparent, said the provincial minister education and literacy, Jam Mehtab Hussain Dahar, on Thursday. 

He said this while talking to US Counsel General Grace Shelton and political economic chief Edward B during a meeting in his office. 

Secretary education Dr Fazullah Phejhu and other officers were also present. 

Appreciating the financial logistic and technical support of the American government in education, health and other sectors in Sindh, the minister expressed his hope that the magnitude of such support would be enhanced in future.

He told the US counsel general that well known institutions would help out in recruitment process and they would also keep an eye on the performance of the teachers in the next five years, submitting their recommendations to regularise the teachers as per their performance.

He said that meals would be provided to the students of primary classes in far-flung areas to arrest the dropout of the children at initial stages, adding that the poverty was the main cause of the drop out.

The minister further informed that through the Teach For Sindh Programme, volunteers would be assigned to teach children in remote areas. He said a rapid progress was possible if the bureaucracy and political leadership would work together on the same page.

The minister added that early childhood education centres were going to be established and female teachers would be appointed there so that early drop out could be stopped. 

US Counsel General Grace Shelton, while discussing various ongoing programmes in Sindh, assured the education minister that the American government would continue its support to the Sindh government and it was a desire of the people of America that the people of Pakistan be well educated.