Better educational infrastructure, teacher training emphasised

Our correspondent

Islamabad: We will have to ensure quality education at all levels to impart the best possible skills to our youths by improving the physical infrastructure, focusing on teachers’ training, and reforming curriculum and examinations, said Planning, Development and Reform Minister Ahsan Iqbal on Tuesday.

“That is the only way to ensure a sustainable change in our education system,” he told a ceremony held here to launch a report on the ‘Inclusive and Sustainable Development, an analytical basis and policy framework’.

The minister said the government while devising action plan for the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) realised the need for devolving education and health sectors at the district level to improve public service delivery and implement the global agenda of SDGs in letter and spirit.

He added that efforts in that respect brought about the district level SDG implementation plans and formulation of broader national framework.

The minister said Pakistan had accorded the highest priority to goals, which would enable it to join the league of upper middle class countries by 2030. He said those goals included zero poverty and hunger, universal access to health services, education, modern energy services, clean water and sanitation.