Media Role for Pakistan Education System

Media Responsibilities for Education in Pakistan

Media is an important source to promote importance of education in Pakistan. It has not fruitful history regarding this role for getting desired results. All channels are focusing political issues and have divided/selected political parties instead of playing neutral role. It needs to choose right track and improvement for betterment in future. All concern stakeholders should get agree on single platform and point out the weaknesses of our learning system. Both electronic and paper authorities should come forward to participate and deliver a strong message along with positive suggestions. Today, we are going to highlight some important points regarding learning structure in Pakistan and how media can address these issues for positive outcomes in future.

Measurement of Quality Education through all Media Channels

Pakistan News and Newspaper

This is a big challenge for Pakistan, it is important to discuss how it can help out to produce quality learning all over the country. It is impossible without proper auditing and monitoring policy. One education system along with same syllabus must be introduced in all areas of the country. All ghost schools and quality teacher should be focused to measure its quality. This can be a big task for both teams to have surveys on it and provide feedback accordingly.

Initial Education Environment and culture

Home environment is the first learning point for a child. This is the main responsibility of parents to create good home environment for positive learning especially mothers can play an important role for this purpose. It should review its role to create awareness in society through all stations. However, some channels are trying to fulfill their responsibilities all over the country like GEO-Zara Sochiye.

Awareness of Technical and Vocational Education

This trend has increased throughout the history and all regular schools and organizations are getting interest to introduce their candidates/employees with new techniques through technical training  All channels are equally responsible to promote and identify the key performance of special institutions/training centers. Since millions of children are out of schools so it needs to enroll these children and increase no of training centers along with all required equipment all over the country.

Governance

Pakistan Education Flaws

It can play an important role to make good governance in this field. Millions of women are illiterate especially in rural areas and they are not allowed to go for getting learning and training.  It needs to have surveys and support the Govt. to make good governance all over the country. National security policy should be strictly followed to avoid terrorism and extremists attacks.

Monitoring Policy

Pakistan Education Budget

Pakistan has poor education system due to having low GDP rate and other its flaws as compare to other countries of our region. Being a strong source, it should help to make strong monitory policy/auditing.

In the end we have to realize that Pakistan media is unable to play its role so far to make strong system in the country. This is the time to summarize and categorize the whole process and all stakeholders should come forward to play their role for betterment in future.

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Pakistan Special Education and Deaf Children

Special Education for Special Children

Special education for special children has been provided since independence of Pakistan in 1947. This system has to face ups and downs throughout the history. Pakistan stands on 7^th number of most populous in the world but 160^th in literacy rate. Deaf children and special education have become challenge for Pakistan where already millions of children have to go for labor work instead of education. Millions of mothers are unable to feed their children due to poverty situation in the country. Currently, Pakistan has to face above 3% of disable people. By viewing such situation many questions may occur in minds under population pressure like, how a deaf child feels and thinks about his future? How he can get attention of society and parents? How he can play an important role for his country? The progress for special people was seen in different decades especially from 1,980 to 1,995. All stakeholders like Govt. of Pakistan, NGOs, Parents and Teachers played an important role for special people all over the country.

Special Education and Training Centers of Deaf Children

Special Education of Deaf

From 1,947 special schools and training centers have been opened for deaf children and treated separately. Since Pakistan has high illiteracy rate of population so all concerned stakeholders have different approach of behavior and treating methods to such individuals. Generally, all regular institutions avoid admitting the disable and deaf students. The management of regular schools thinks that they will have to arrange special arrangements like hearing tools, training centers and teachers for these students. They think that it is responsibility of special schools and training centers so avoid from disable children. The parents and teachers think that deaf individuals have low learning qualities so should be treated separately from normal students.

Instructional Approach for Deaf Children

Special Training of Deaf

Since Pakistan has poor education system, so instructional approach in general and special education not being effective. It has to been observed that most of teachers and parents never used “Sign Language” for special children. Similarly most of teachers avoid using cued speech in class rooms. It needs to use “Sign Language” at national level to help out in improving communication skills accordingly. The special schools and training centers are not in good position so that can introduce deaf students with new techniques and learning ways. The institutions are unable to purchase equipment and higher the trained teachers. Resultant  they are unable to provide fruitful results. Further, it has been observed that above 90% don’t have expensive hearing aids for this purpose.

General Perception about Special Education and Deaf Children

Pakistani society is not ready to provide positive response to deaf individuals. Generally, they don’t treat them as part of this society and think that all deaf individuals have low ability to survive in lives. Due to poverty situation and countrywide unemployment all disable people are looking like burden for society and should be treated separately by sitting Govt. Normally, parents are ready to attend their normal children and haven’t time for deaf children. They don’t have to attend meetings with teachers and follow instructions or guidelines for betterment as well. The organizations are not ready to have vacancies or special quota for these special candidates/applicants. They are offering only low grades at low salaries ignoring the qualities candidates.

In the end all stakeholders including NGOs should come forward and play an important role for all disable people.

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