University of Management and Technology (UMT) organized a special seminar on Pakistan’s Curriculum Development in which Provincial Education Minister RanaSikandar Hayat Khan participated as a special guest. While talking to the students, he said that the decisions of one’s fate cannot be made sitting in closed rooms, so educational reforms will be brought in consultation with all stakeholders. Students will be taught all modern IT skills including Robotics and Python. The education minister said that it was a pleasure to come to UMT while seeing that the future of Pakistan is being prepared in a wonderful educational environment. The youth are the only hope and change. With the help of youth, Pakistan will stand on its feet again.
Rana Sikandar Hayat further said that he is determined to bring Punjab to number one in the ranking of education and make Pakistan a significant country in the export sector as well. He said that there is no shame in adopting a good policy of any party. We will come up with a curriculum that will be requirements of the modern era. The education minister said that now is the time to get out of the discussion of who is right and who is wrong, only work for the betterment of the country. We have to ponder why government educational institutions are not doing well as compared to private educational institutions.
Rana Sikandar said that the Punjab government will give 500 scholarships to the youth for higher education. The education minister told the students that he has started a series of surprise visits to ensure the immediate availability of basic facilities in the educational institutions. He said that he will go to the last extent to improve the schools and provide adequate facilities to the students. The education minister also promised the students to make all the government educational institutions of Punjab model educational institutions in the next 5 years.
