SWABI, Sept 16: Speakers at a workshop urged teachers to play their role for raising the educational level. This was stated by educationists on the first day of a week-long orientation workshop for the headmasters of the government high and middle schools which opened here on Thursday.

The headmasters of about 100 middle and high schools are taking part in the workshop, held by the education department. Speakers said that overall literacy rate in the urban areas was 36 per cent and rural areas was 34.45 per cent.

There are 54 per cent males educated in urban areas and 52.47 per cent in rural areas. The ratio of education among the females is very low because only 18 per cent female are literate in the urban and 16.74 in the rural areas.

The government has planned to provide quality education to the 80 per cent girls of the district by 2008 and for the achieving this purpose the Unicef has been co-operating with the district government. It was stressed that if the heads of the institutions were working according to the demand the subordinates could excel in different fields.