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JT to rally teachers against government
LAHORE, May 22(Daily Times): The Islami Jamiat Talaba (IJT)
has launched a campaign to support teachers in their rallies against the
government.
It was learnt that a meeting between the IJT and
various teachers' organisations including the Punjab University Academic Staff
Association (PUASA), Punjab Professors and Lecturers Association (PPLA) and
Muttahida Mahaz Asataza was held at Government Islami College, Civil Lines, on
Sunday evening. The participants agreed to launch a countrywide 'Taleem Bachao
Muhim' (Save Education Movement) besides expressing their anger over the
presidential reference against Supreme Court Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad
Chaudhry.
The IJT and teachers of colleges and universities planned to
join protesting schoolteachers in their rallies against the government. The
schoolteachers have been demanding the government stop de-nationalising
educational institutions, abolish the contract system to appoint teachers,
continue education policies and issue special teaching allowances.
PUASA
president Prof Dr Mumtaz Salik, who is also the president of the Federation of
All Pakistan Universities Academic Staff Associations (FAPUASA), said everybody
had to unite against the government's plan to privatise a large number of
government schools and colleges and against the injustice being committed on the
teaching community.
He said privatising and de-nationalising government
educational institutions would be a major blow to the poor who could not afford
expensive private education. He said the meeting decided that student groups and
elected teachers' unions of colleges and universities would help protesting
schoolteachers in their campaign against the government.
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| Education News | | Updated: 25 May, 2012 |
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