Over 40,000 new teachers being trained to improve education standard: Minister.

DADU -- Sindh Minister for Education Syed Sardar Ali Shah has said that his department has launched a training programme for the newly-recruited junior elementary school teachers (JESTs) in first phase of their skill development.

He was briefing journalists about teachers' training programme during his visit to an institute. He visited various other such institutes in different towns of Sindh during his two-day tour. The minister was accompanied by several academicians, scholars and officials of his department.

Sardar Shah told the journalists that around 21,200 newly-recruited primary school teachers (PSTs) out of the total 40,176 had already been receiving training at 55 institutes in the province with the aim of ensuring an improved quality of teaching. He said experts belonging to Sindh Teachers Education Development Authority (STEDA) and the Teachers Training Institution (TTI) were providing training to newly-recruited teachers for their professional development which would help improve the overall quality and standard of education in Sindh.

Replying to a question, he said that the 21,200 PSTs were divided in four batches and each of the batches was attending 24-day training. Later, the remaining PSTs would follow suit in the next phase, he added.

The minister said that under a pilot project, training the newly-recruited JESTs had also been started in Sukkur, Larkana, Hyderabad, Shaheed Benazirabad, Mirpurkhas and Karachi divisions...

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