The Punjab Government will sign a Memorandum of Understanding with the Private Higher Education Institutes for providing science education to the government school students from 9th to 12th standard. The representatives of the private higher education institutes today submitted a proposal in this regard to the technical education minister here today. After meeting with the representatives of Higher Technical Education Institutes, Mr. Charanjit Singh Channi, Punjab Technical Education Minister said that 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.Mr. Channi said that this proposal will be discussed with the Education Minister Mrs. Aruna Chaudhary and this will be matured with the objective of strengthening the science education at 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.
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 practicals. He further said that apart from this the private institutes have also proposed to provide their labs for one day in a week to the students of government schools. Besides this, private schools have also offered to run free training courses for the science teachers of the government schools.Mr. Channi said that this joint program by the Punjab government is being prepared for the students with the aim to prepare them at ground level for higher education. He said that every stream of higher education it may be technical education, pharmacy or any other subject, the students must have good knowledge of science subjects at school level.