KARACHI, May 13: Senator Nisar Memon has said that our new generation has to face challenges of the new century by learning more about science and technology.

He was delivering a lecture on Role of Faculty and Students in Meeting the Educational Challenges at Sindh Madressatul Islam here on Tuesday.

“Today, focused learning is extremely important for development of the country and its people,” he remarked and said that tuitions and copy-culture had destroyed the process of genuine learn-ing.

Advocating better facilities for teachers, he said that the government and civil society should jointly address their problems.

He stressed the need for updating teaching techniques and curriculum after a fixed span of time. “In developed countries, three-year-old curriculum is considered as obsolete, but in our country we continue to follow old curriculum for years,” he observed and said that the West had an edge because they had an excellent education system.

We would have to change our education system now, he remarked.

Earlier, Muhammad Ali Shaikh, in his welcome address, said that there were many challenges which the new generation and faculty would have to face with fine skills in the emerging world scenario.

He regretted that there was no proper system in the country to appoint an appropriate person as teacher due to which teachers failed to produce desired results. He called for legislation on the issue.—PPI