Cells set up to monitor schools performance

PESHAWAR: The Education Department has set up monitoring cells at government schools over unsatisfactory annual results and regular absence of teachers from the schools.
On the directive of Education Minister Sardar Hussain Babak, monitoring cells have been set up in state-run schools.
Each cell comprises of section officers who will make a sudden visit to schools after every five months.
They will also inquire about the problems and difficulties faced by the students.
According to the education department, hundreds of teachers remain absent from the schools.
While some teachers who are regularly taking their classes could not cover the syllabus due to which the course of the students remain incomplete.
It merits a mention here that most of teachers in state-run schools have opened private schools and remain absent from their duties in government schools due to which government schools of the province are showing a very poor results continuously.
Keeping in view the poor performance most of the parents are reluctant to enroll their children in government schools affecting the enrollment process in these schools badly across the province.
Parents says that schoolteachers have a totally different approach to school education, which could affect the students’ performance.
It is hoped that setting up monitoring cells would ensure teachers' attendance in the schools.