HYDERABAD, April 29: Director, Centre of Environmental Studies, University of Sindh, Dr Mohammad Yar Khuhawar, has stressed the need for collective efforts by community for the promotion of science edu-cation from school to college level.

He was delivering a lecture on science education in Sindh organized by the Sindh Goth Sudhar Sangat in Jamshoro on Sunday.

He said that during the last 20 years the number of science colleges had increased in Sindh but the number of students had not increased.

Dr Khuhawar said that due to shortage of qualified staff and laboratories, science subject had not received any encouragement in the rural areas of the province.

He said that only 23 percent students from the interior of Sindh entered the universities but only seven percent sought science education.

He called upon the people and the institutions to take interest in the promotion of science education and added that without collective efforts this objective could not be achieved.

Dr Khuhawar said that without a strong base at primary, middle and college level, the quality of higher education could not be improved.

He said that teachers alone could not be held responsible for the promotion of education, as it was the equal responsibility of the society to strive for this objective.

A large number of teachers, students and people from different walks of life attended the lecture.

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