Prime Minister (PM) Shehbaz Sharif on Tuesday officially launches the ‘Teleschool Pakistan App,’ to provide online education to students from Grade-1 to 12.
According to a statement, Premier Shehbaz launched ‘Teleschool Pakistan App, Google for Education, and Digital Continuous Professional Development initiative to further revolutionize the formal education medium in Pakistan.
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While addressing the launching ceremony, the prime minister stressed that all resources and efforts should be utilized to introduce modern modes of education including digitization initiatives, besides imparting the latest training to teachers.
The prime minister said that teachers’ training in the country was not up to the mark which was unfortunate and cited his experience in Punjab province.
He said that he had directed steps to improve the quality of about 40 training centers in the province during his tenure as the chief minister. PM Shehbaz urged the Minister for Federal Education to chalk out a mechanism in consultations with the provincial governments to improve the quality of teachers’ training.
While referring to the significance of the latest technology in modern education, he underlined that if they wanted to equip the young generations with the latest education, they would have to give them free laptops and other related gadgets, so that the future builders of the nation could get themselves acquainted with the new modes of education.
He said that about 100,000 laptops would be distributed among the high achievers and brilliant across the country.
The prime minister said that the vocational training program should be taken forward in collaboration with the provincial governments and the private sector. Instead of making investments in the brick and mortar, they should invest in the young students by imparting them technical and skill training, he added.
The prime minister emphasized that the students should be directly trained by involving the private sector. The best institutions in the private sector should be hired in a transparent manner and investments be made in each student by imparting them proper training.
The prime minister said that they would also establish a network of Danish schools in the far-flung areas of Balochistan for which huge investments would be made.
The prime minister opined that the vocational training programme should be taken forward in collaboration with the provincial governments and the private sector.
Instead of making investments in the brick and mortar, they should invest in the young students by imparting them technical and skill training, he added.
The prime minister emphasized that the students should be directly trained by involving the private sector. The best institutions in the private sector should be hired in a transparent manner and investments be made in each student by imparting them proper training.
The prime minister said that they would also establish a network of Danish schools in the far-flung areas of Balochistan for which huge investments would be made.
Speaking on the occasion, Minister for Federal Education and Professional Training Rana Tanveer Hussain said that quality of education was linked with teachers’ training which was being focused.
He said digital content would be created and made available on different mediums. A total of six digital channels were launched for different ages. He said after the Covid pandemic, 6000 quality videos were prepared.
Earlier, the prime minister also distributed chrome books among different students of Islamabad.
