Pakistan to ensure teachers elevated status: minister

Pakistani government is committed to ensure teachers dignity and elevated status, a minister said Thursday.

Efforts are being made to provide respectable status to teachers through various incentives, as teachers played crucial role in grooming students for modern challenges, said Pakistani Minister for Education Javed Ashraf Qazi at an educational gathering "Education For All Week".

Institutions and experts concerned are reviewing the syllabus to make it more responsive to challenges faced by nowadays' educators and students, the minister said while stressing the need of providing quality education.

The "Education For All Week", with a theme of ""Every Child Needs a Teacher" , started from April 24 in Islamabad and was organized by Pakistani ministry of education in collaboration with the United States educational affairs-concerned body UNESCO.

Source: Xinhua