ISLAMABAD, Feb 20: The Federal Directorate of Education (FDE) will train 2,600 teachers this year under a programme to enhance the teaching standards in the federally administrated schools and colleges.

This was stated by FDE director-general Brig (Rtd) Maqsoodul Hasan in his speech on the annual sports day of the FG Margalla College for Women in Sector F-7/4 here on Wednesday.

He said more than 1,000 teachers were trained last year. Encouraged by the results, the FDE had decided to continue the programme this year, he added.

He regretted that in this age of information technology, Pakistani students were still busy in cramming parts of textbooks to pass their exams. This, he observed, resulted in an ever- increasing lot of unskilled graduates in the country.

The existing system of education needs to be overhauled according to the demands of the computer age, he maintained.

Appreciating the efforts of the organizers of the annual sports day events, he said extra-curricular activities were as important as the curricular activities for the development of a balanced personality.

Meanwhile, Laila Batool was declared the best athlete of the college for the year 2001-02 for winning the 100-meter and 800- meter races and contributing to the success of her second-year team in volley ball, table tennis and other events.