KARACHI, Dec 11: Sindh education minister Prof Anita Ghulam Ali has said that the decision of the provincial cabinet to denationalize some educational institutions in the province is aimed at checking the decline in the standard of education and eliminating the growing apprehensions about the whole situation.

Talking to PPI at an Iftar Party hosted in her honour by the Mohammad Ali Jinnah University Karachi on Tuesday, she said the terms and conditions set for the denationalization of educational institutions would herald radical changes in the education sector.

To a question about the apprehensions of teachers regarding the security of their jobs under new employers, she maintained that more than 275 seats of teachers were lying vacant in the education department, which would be advertised and filled through the Public Service Commission. In addition, she said, they (teachers) were given an assurance about the safety of their employments.

“Terms and conditions imposed on the original owners of some educational institutions to be denationalized are so harsh that fears and concerns about increase in tuition fee and unemployment of teachers are groundless,” she maintained.

She said that the complete denationalization of all the educational institution would take more than a year. She urged the masses to change their attitude towards some so-called prestigious public educational institutions as 4 large-capacity and “allegedly less prestigious” colleges had remained under-enrolled during the last year.—PPI