Alarmed over the poor results, Punjab Education Department, Technical Education Department and the private higher education institutes will jointly run science teaching programme in the State’s Government schools.
The State Government will sign a Memorandum of Understanding with the private higher education institutes for providing science education to the Government school students from Classes IX to XII.
In this regard, the representatives of private higher education institutes submitted a proposal to the Technical Education Minister
Charanjit Singh Channi on Monday.
Channi said that the proposal would be discussed with the Education Minister Aruna Chaudhary and would be matured with the objective of strengthening the science education at the ground level.
He said that after this, the Education Minister, Technical Education Minister and representatives of all the associations of the private institutes will convene a joint meeting next week to give a practical shape to this proposal.
“In today’s scientific era, it is necessary for students to have good knowledge of the science subject at school level in order to get proper higher education in any stream,” said Channi.
The Technical Education Minister said that in the initial proposal, the private players have proposed that they would adopt schools to teach science subjects in government schools.
He said that as per the proposal, private institutes would strengthen infrastructure of science labs and provide support in supplying chemicals for science practical.