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Beaconhouse National University (BNU) Board of Governors Chairperson
Nasreen Mahmud Kasuri on Thursday expressed the need to have forums to
discuss sensitive issues pertaining to language policy in education.<br>
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Mrs Kasuri was chairing the plenary session of a one-day international
conference organised by the BNU School of Education (SE). The themes of
the conference were “Education, Language and Educational Management.”
The conference was a part of BNU’s 10th anniversary celebrations.<br>
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Mrs Kasuri expressed the need to train teachers in the latest approaches
and methodologies to ensure quality teaching. She said “It is alarming
how the dilemma of untrained teachers in the classroom can be damaging
to the students.” She acknowledged the role of BNU SE in training
teachers at different levels of education. She also stressed the need to
address the issue of the role and status of local languages and mother
tongue in education.<br>
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BNU Vice Chancellor Sartaj Aziz highlighted the need to focus on the
issue of education in Pakistan. He said that higher funds were only one
of the four pre-requisites for the transformation of the education
system in Pakistan. The other three being well trained teachers, an
objective and professional institutional framework for educational
management and incentives for learning and scientific research.<br>
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He said there was a positive relationship between mother tongue and
educational achievement; therefore, it was important for improving
literacy rate in the country that all the major languages be given the
status of national languages in Pakistan.<br>
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SE Dean Dr Tariq Rahman talked about the important role conferences play
in academia in sharing ground breaking research findings and furthering
novel research ideas.<br>
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Lahore College for Women University Vice Chancellor Dr Sabiha Mansoor
stressed the impact of languages on education policy of a country. She
reiterated the role of mother tongue in strengthening the
ethno-linguistic identity of its speakers as well as improving
educational achievement.<br>
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In the session on the theme of “Language”, Lahore School of Economics
Department of Social Sciences Head Dr Shahid Siddiqui highlighted the
role language plays in developing gender stereotypes. In his talk he
also suggested that the educational institutions can play a vital role
in eliminating these stereotypes from the society.<br>
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In the session on “Education”, Society for the Advancement of Education
(SAHE) Executive Director Abbas Rashid and SAHE Director Dr Fareeha
Zafar emphasised on a language policy that promoted the use of local
languages as a medium of instruction.<br>
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University of Pennsylvania doctoral candidate Murium Durrani suggested
that policy of compulsory English in public sector schools, instead of
democratising education might increase illiteracy.<br>
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In the session on “Educational Management”, University of London Royal
Holloway doctoral candidate Sumaira Noreen gave a historical perspective
of the way in which education has been managed in South Asia.<br>
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FC College University Centre for Learning and Teaching Director Dr
Rukhsana Zia gave an insider’s perspective on the process of bringing
about policy reforms in education in Pakistan.<br>
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LUMS Department of Law and Policy Associate Professor Dr Osama Siddique
summed up the session by stressing on the need for a constructive
educational policy where the government and other stake holders join
hands to bring about the much needed reforms in the education sector in
Pakistan.<br>
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The conference was attended by prominent academics, experts, educationists and a large number of students. </p></div></div></div>
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