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Islamabad - Parents have called for taking steps to ensure availability of trained teaching staff in certain private educational institutions of the federal capital.
“We are not satisfied with the quality of education being imparted at certain private schools as the main focus is on charging high fees, rather than improving education quality,” they said.
They opined that specific problems were being observed in some private schools but main issue, being highlighted by parents, was the lack of trained teaching staff.
They pointed out a number of private schools were being opened in different areas of twin cities but there was no proper mechanism in place to evaluate the quality of education and teaching staff by concerned authorities.
Parents complained that some private schools even lacked proper facilities to ensure good educational environment for their children.
A citizen Adil Raza said, “Parents generally prefer to admit their children in private schools for ensuring standard education for their children and somehow ignore government institutions which are full on professional staff.”
Raza, who is also father of a student said, “I managed to ensure admission of my child in a private school and later found that it has hired un-experienced and less educated staff to teach the children.” Such private schools mostly prefer to hire lady teachers, who are ever ready to work on low salaries and in this way the future of students are put at stake”, he added.
Shabna Alvi, a workingwoman said, “We pay a heavy fees for excellence of education but I am depressed with the education system of these private schools.”
“I belong to a middle class family so it is difficult for me to pay such high fees” she said and added, “I want to see my child to become a doctor in future.”
She said, “Now it seems that the management of school is playing with the career of my child.” Father Bilal Asghar said that, “Certain private schools charge heavy fees but fail to grant better education in return.”
He said private educational institutions regulatory authority (PEIRA) was required to take urgent notice of this specific problem, which related to the future of millions of students.
When contacted, an official of Private Educational Institutions Regulatory Authority (PEIRA), while talking to APP said, PEIRA was established in 2006 under an ordinance and in 2013 National Assembly passed a bill, so it became an Act.
He said on the complaints of the parents, the PEIRA teams visited the specific schools and took strict notice of the reports.
He further said the performance of PEIRA was yet not so good adding that steps were being taken to make it more effective body in days ahead.