No wonder, everyone else takes primary and secondary education very seriously. Graduates with teacher training certificates of a year or so after careful and crucial process of vetting are considered eligible to enter primary and secondary schools as teachers and teacher assistants. A brief look at our process of employing teachers for primary and secondary schools would put us all in shame. It is an open secret that anyone who fails in every other profession is welcome to join as a PST or SST without an examination to pass, scrutiny and vetting to undergo or teacher's trainings to take; mostly these posts are sold or exchanged for political or personal favors.
Our population is soaring to over 200 million but still we could not identify relatively better teachers to educate our young generation to contribute towards social reform. All education levels are important, but secondary level in particular is important because at this level, for example, a girl or a boy can become a computer literate and interface with more technology. A very large number of children in Pakistan are still unable to read and write, even after spending three or more years in school.
Copyright Business Recorder, 2017