PEF beneficiary students to rise 2.3m

LAHORE

Punjab Education Foundation (PEF) Managing Director on Tuesday claimed that total number of beneficiary students of the foundation would rise to about 2.3 million by the end of this year.

Tariq Mahmood, while briefing the programme committee members about the expansion plans in partnership with the private school partners, also gave a detailed presentation about the foundation’s role and its contribution to provide free schooling facility to the deserving children on their doorsteps.

The meeting, held with Convener Dr. Amjad Saqib, reviewed different agenda items including expansion of PEF programmes and their budget estimations for the next financial year and effective exploitation of public- private partnership based initiatives.

The meeting observed that the process of teachers’ certification would help to improve the overall quality of education by introducing new concepts in their subjects. It also noted with satisfaction the 45 percent ratio of girls in PEF sponsored schools and observed this proportion might be further increased to 50 percent so that gender-equality could be fully maintained. The programme directors also briefed the meeting about their respective programme’s performance.

Dr Amjad Saqib asked the programme heads to work proactively and ensure that their school partners’ grievances were well redressed so that the agenda of education-promotion could be achieved.