Merchants of education by Syed Ahmed Raza Rizvi

Merchants of education
Syed Ahmed Raza Rizvi
As we travel around the city, we happened to read sign boards of different English medium private schools, opened almost on every corner of streets, and with the passage of time, a big amount of increament has been observed in their quantity.
though, it seems to be a sign of development in the sense of educaton which could be helpful to improve our literacy rate and may serve to prospour our country, but this illusion would perish, if one happens to visit any of the school of this calibre.Any sensible parent who have ever visited those local-street-schools, may tell you a better story.
Over the world, teaching is considered to be a noble profession, but a heart wrenching and bitter truth is that the owners of these local-street-schools have been exploiting the noblity of this profession by demanding higher fees in the name of education while they provide sub-standered education, a senior school teacher revealed that these owners hire un-skilled, uneducated and less qualified teachers  (mostly females, who do not demand big amount of salaries and even work for longer period of time.)
Majority of these teachers have joined this profession just for the sake of  a pinch of money and are often found to be merely FSC passed, metric passed or even less! These teachers along with their Heads are seemed to be busy in ruinning this noble profession and turning it to a business.
An other senior teacher remarked that these bad workmen querrel with their tools and make a mess with syllabous by following cramming methods which destroys the natural abilities of kids. Mostly students from these schools remain spoon-feeders and loose the ability of thinking critically over different aspects and their power of decision making is also affected.These students from local-street-schools fece several difficulties while enter in their professional life.
Last year, on Friday Jan 13, ministr of education Pir Mazhar-Ul-Haq briefed Sindh Assembly that total 10,665 private schools are operating in Sindh, while 1,543 schools out of them are unregistered. List of other registred and un registered schools in few cities of Sindh is given below.

Karachi,     Registered=5,559 Unregisterd=563
Hyderabad, = =            222,  ======== 25
Jamshoro      ===          131    =======  24
Mirpur,      ======== 431    ======= 65
Sukkar        ======== 307    ====== = 56
Larkana,   ========= 217   ======== 35
Nawabshah, ======= 192     ======== 65

These Local-street, registerd and unregistered schools, have brought our education system on the verge of destruction. If serious actions are not been taken on instant bases, the condition will go worst..!

2013
Syed Ahmed Raza Rizvi, BS part 3
Un-edited
This practical work was done under supervision of Sir Sohail Sangi

Discrimination In Education In Our Country

Discrimination In Education In Our Country

Zahra Khuzema

Why every parent thinks a hundred times before admitting his/her child to a school ? , if there are two options kept infront of them that is private school and government school, parents would prefer private school over the government school. 

The root cause why parents do so is that they doubt the quality of education given in the government school, not only the education but the environment as well in which their child would be brought up to be an unknown person. The parents which can afford private schools they go for it, but the lower class people have no option but to admit their child in government school. Children studying in government school face many problems, few of them are listed below :

·       Teachers which are not trained

·       Politics in the school

·       Corruption highlighted

·       Lacking staff attendance

There are many other problems as well, the students studying there have to suffer. The syllabus in government schools is same throughout the years, it is so similar to the one in stoneage (old) that the mother of 1970’s hasw also studied it and the daughter of 2013 is still studying the same. The standard of this course is pretty low, lot of grammatical mistakes, seldome incorrect sentence construction. Most of the times the text books are in urdu and if in english then it is the worst written english. It does not matter much that how the texty books are printed, the thing which matters that how the teachers convey their lecture to the students.

Coming back to square one, the syllabus throughout the coun try should be same, so that the education system which has been divided in the name of caste, class and status can come to an end. The discrimination among the upper class and the lower class has been reached to an extreme, this can only overcome when government will take the initial step which is that atleast the teaching plans and the syllabus should be same and equal for the entire Pakistan. The day is not far when the literacy rate of our country will start escalating.

2013

Feature- Zahra Khuzema Roll # MC-2k11/103, BS -III 
Practical work done under supervision of Sir Sohail Sangi

Education system in Sindh

Education system in Sindh

By Kaleemullah Kalhoro

In today's world, education is not what it is supposed to be. I think that we should first look over the main aim of education before giving any statement on this topic. As I take it, the education is meant to serve many purposes. It should enable the student to look the world in a different perspective than just living in it.

Education is preparing a person to face everyday life problems. It changes our personality and way of talking and education helps us to live in this world and to understand it. This is only education which enables you to give your opinion. Think, if u didn't go to school, could you criticize your education system? I think that life without education is a waste in today's world.

If you notice, half of what we learn in school isn't needed at all. The education system in Sindh puts more emphasis on the theoretical knowledge than the practical. A student from the very beginning of education is forced to copy up the things rather than to understand the thoughts.

Our education system has been under the curse of cramming where memorizing has more importance than understanding. In the higher studies as we know the condition is the same. Instead of acquiring school education, they are simply learning cramming by copying the answers and writing the same in their exams.

Today all the educated, moneymaking parents want to give their child best education for that they go to popular schools but they never check teacher who gives education. We believe that modern education system is very efficient. A child is sent to school only at the age of four where his teachers give him moral education. Moral education is all about making a human being understand what type of education is best for him and for the society.

Higher education in Sindh is broke, where students are given importance on neither theories nor practical education, so they lack the actual knowledge. Today we give more importance on theoretical education than practical. We simply memorize the text we are provided and copy that as it is in the examinations just to gain marks.

Presently we are loosing our education quality level because of some reasons; I personally feel that the money-makers (private schools) are the vital reason to loose our quality of education because they provide education only affordable for the rich, but not to our poor people. In Sindh there is a lot of number of unregistered private schools which only made for money-making. There are approximately 1543 unregistered private schools operating in Sindh.

According to Senior Minister for Education Pir Mazharul Haq that 9,122 registered and 1,543 unregistered private schools are operating in Sindh province. there are 5,359 registered and 563 unregistered schools in Karachi; 878 registered and 336 unregistered in Hyderabad; 222 registered and 25 unregistered in Sukkur; 307 registered and 56 unregistered in Mirpurkhas; 441 registered and 65 unregistered in Khairpur; 140 registered and 67 unregistered in Larkana; 217 registered and 35 unregistered in Benazirabad (Nawabshah); 192 registered and 62 unregistered in Ghotki; 128 registered and 31 unregistered in Jamshoro; 131 registered and 24 unregistered in N. Feroze; 107 registered and 34 unregistered in Dadu; 132 registered and 27 unregistered in Badin; 201 registered and 32 unregistered in Sanghar; 94 registered and 15 unregistered in Thatta; 39 registered and eight unregistered in Matiari; 42 registered and seven unregistered in Tando Muhammad Khan; 79 registered and 16 unregistered in Tando Allahyar; 79 registered and 44 unregistered in Umerkot; 79 registered and 16 unregistered in Mithi; 60 registered and 10 unregistered in Kambar, Shahdadkot; 63 registered and 30 unregistered in Shikarpur; 67 registered and nine unregistered in Jacobabad; 65 registered and 31 unregistered in Kashmore, Kandhkot.

The system has to be changed according to the age groups of students. The primary students are given very much burden in many schools. The education should give them the proper course structure which should be a must in all schools. This has to change right from primary education to graduation levels.
The system of examinations has to be changed by all admissions given by money power so poor who have good marks did not get admission in their choice of study. Education is the most fundamental factor of one's social and economic success in life. Learning in school makes us to know how to interact with different people of society. This not only helps in our career growth.
Government should support those people who are talented, and government should support them working for the society. Our government should adopt the learning techniques which are useful for the children in this competitive world, government must work on those things before it gets too late.

This practical work was carried out under the supervision of Sir Sohail Sangi.
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