HYDERABAD, Oct 1: Pro-chancellor University of Sindh and provincial Education Minister Irfanullah Khan Marwat has said that the issue of providing transport to students and teachers will be given top priority by the government.

He said this while presiding over the 27th meeting of the Sindh University Senate of the university at Jamshoro campus here on Wednesday.

He said tests would be conducted to recruit teachers. He invited the vice-chancellor of the university to visit test centres along with his deans in order to check the test system.

He said he would discuss the issue of raise in teachers’ salaries and increased remuneration for PhD scholars with the higher authorities.

He assured university scholars that the issue of transportation for university teachers as well as students would be resolved and a summary would be floated by the ministry of education in this regard.

Mr Marwat appreciated that the university was working for the promotion of higher education in the country and had developed a research culture.

He appreciated the efforts of the vice-chancellor for the promotion of education in the country and added that it was the duty of scholars to identify the problems confronting our society and come up with sustainable solutions.

He said that higher education is vital to the economy’s growth.

He said it was a matter of satisfaction that the university of Sindh had introduced a lot of reforms to improve the quality of education and added that without discipline and judicious use of available resources no improvement could be expected in the quality of the life of the common man.

Mr Marwat said that school education in the province of Sindh was facing apathy, mismanagement and financial constraints and claimed that the present government was trying its best to rectify the situation.

He said the ministry of education was striving hard to provide equal facilities to students as well as teachers in remote areas of Sindh to enable them to compete with students of modern schools.

He said the education ministry of Sindh had identified two schools, one for girls and one for boys to start English medium classes and added that from the next year English medium teaching would be started in two schools of every taluka and town of Sindh.

He informed syllabi of primary education had been changed and in the next year syllabi of secondary and higher education would also be changed.

Vice-chancellor University of Sindh Mazharul Haq Siddiqui in his welcome address said that the university had achieved notable goals in introducing many disciplines during the past two years.