KARACHI: Sindh Education Minister Syed Sardar Shah on Thursday announced that the provincial government was planning to introduce “licenses” to teachers of educational institutions across the province.
“Every profession — be it lawyers, doctors, engineers, and others — have licenses, but unfortunately, teachers don’t. We aim to change that and issue mandatory licenses,” the minister said while talking to journalists in Karachi.
According to the education minister, the provincial government would soon complete the legal prerequisites and make it law in the coming months but did not give an exact time frame.
“Sindh Teachers Education Development Authority (STEDA) will conduct the exams, and once a person passes it, they will be granted the license to teach”, the provincial minister added.
Moreover, the education minister said there are more than 6,000 schools in Sindh that are “unsustainable”, such schools would be closed in the coming days.
Last month, Sindh’s Public-Private Partnership Policy Board approved a Teachers Training Institute & College (TTIC) project for feasibility and subsequent private partners’ solicitation.
The School Education & Literacy Department (SELD) conducted a feasibility study through transaction advisers for six TTIC’s, including Govt Elementary College of Education (GECE) Women, Hussainabad, the GECE Women, Mirpurkhas, the GECE Women, Larkana, the GECE (W&M), Darsano Channo, Karachi, the GECE (Men), Sukkur and Provincial Institute of Teacher Education (PITE), Shaheed Benazirabad.
After thorough deliberations, the board approved to hand over GECE (Women) Mirpurkhas to SZABIST, the GECE (Men) Sukkur to IBA Sukkur, the GECE (Men) Larkana to SZABIST and the GECE (Men & Women) Darsano Channo, Karachi to IoBM to operate them.
The board also approved establishment of the NED Technology Park on NED Campus with the core objective of building an innovative ecosystem through entrepreneurship, stimulating innovation-led economic growth, promoting commercialisation of research and development in association with local research centres and academic institutions and creating enhanced international and national strategic linkages to further growth and economic diversity.
