KARACHI, July 26: The Sindh Minister for Education and Literacy, Dr Hamida Khuhro, on Tuesday said that the decisions taken in Inter-Provincial Ministers of Education Conference (IPC) would prove as foundation stones towards quality education in Pakistan.

Dr Khuhro, after returning from Lahore, said the federal minister and all other provincial ministers appreciated Sindh’s initiative regarding the change of academic year and all other provinces had been asked to dovetail their academic sessions with Sindh.

The minister said that the acts of Sindh with regard to introduction of English language as a separate subject from primary level and teaching of science and mathematics from middle standards had been taken-up in all the other provinces.

Dr Khuhro said that the IPC had also decided to encourage teachers’ training to ensure rise in the quality of education and also applauded the Sindh education ministry’s comprehensive teachers’ training plan and leadership training to heads of all the secondary and higher secondary schools.

She said that the present government deserved the credit in giving the education sector its due priority. — PPI