KARACHI, Dec 30: Retired justice of the Supreme Court, Wajihuddin Ahmed, on Friday expressed concern over the administration and governance of education at the local, provincial and federal levels in the country.

“While the culture of ghost teachers and ghost educational institutions remains rampant, official regulators were lately found to be engaged in making forays into privately-run disciplines,” he said.

The quality of students being “churned out by government-managed institutions was no secret”. Yet, on one hand, matters were compounded unilaterally and thoughtlessly by introducing composite examination system at the SSC level, and then pompously granting a breathing space of five years to private-sector-sponsored ‘O’ and ‘A’ levels,” he said.

Justice (Retd) Wajihuddin talking to PPI in Karachi contended that the “Adopt-a-School Scheme” had failed solely because those targeted were denied the power to hire and fire inapt teaching staff.

He decried the spread of holiday culture and said that recently the city nazim had first declared Dec 15 as holiday on the one-day match in Karachi and another on Dec 16 to celebrate the Pakistani’ team’s victory.—PPI