مولاناحفیظ الرحمن واصف
گذشتہ مہینے (۱۳ مارچ) کواجڑنے اور باربار بسنے والی دلّی کی ایک اور فخر روزگار شخصیت مولانا حفیظ الرحمن واصف کی شکل میں اس دنیا سے اٹھ گئی اور دلّی کی بساط علم و دین اورادب وشعر پرچھایا ہوا اندھیرا کچھ اور گہرا ہوگیا، ان کی وفات پر محدود صحافتی اورعلمی حلقوں میں اضطراب اور ہلچل کی کمزورسی کیفیت نظر آئی جو مولانا حفیظ الرحمن واصف جیسی جلیل القدر شخصیت کے ماتم کے لیے نہ صرف ناکافی بلکہ کہناچاہیے کہ ان کی رفعت شان سے حددرجہ کم تر تھی۔ وہ ان ٹمٹماتی ہوئی شمعوں میں سے ایک شمع تھے جوآزادی سے پہلے اورآزادی کے بعد کی دہلی کی تمدنی تبدیلیوں اورلسانی اورسماجی تلاطم کی نوعیت اور کیفیتوں کی عکاس تھی اوروہ خود آزادی سے پہلے اور آزادی کے بعد کے درمیان نہ صرف حدِ فاصل کی حیثیت رکھتے تھے بلکہ ان کاشمارسماجی انقلاب حال کے مشہور ماتم گساروں اور میرؔ،سوداؔ، غالبؔ ،حالیؔ اورداغؔ جیسے نوحہ خوانوں میں ہوتاتھا۔
وہ اس خانوادۂ علم وشریعت کے چشم وچراغ تھے، جس نے ۱۸۵۷ء میں اجڑنے والی دہلی کواز سر نوسجانے اور بہاروں سے آراستہ کرنے میں حصہ لیا تھااور ایک پورے تمدن کی تباہی کے بعد اس کے ملبہ سے نئی اوردلآویز عمارت تعمیر کرنے کی ہمت دکھائی تھی۔
وہ حضرت مولانا مفتی کفایت اﷲ کے فرزند دلبند اوران کی سیرت اور خصلت کے بے شمار پہلوؤں میں ان کے حقیقی وارث اور جانشین تھے۔انہوں نے آنکھ کھول کراپنے یگانہ روزگار والد کے علاوہ جن لوگوں کی آنکھیں دیکھی تھیں، اور جن کی صحبتوں سے فیض اٹھایا تھاوہ سب وہ لوگ تھے کہ اب ان کا ثانی، دہلی کی سرزمین پرشاید ہی چشم فلک کوکبھی دیکھنا نصیب ہو۔
آج کی دہلی میں ان کاوجود بہاروں کی یادگار یاغالب کے الفاظ میں داغِ فراق صحبت شب کی...
This study was conducted purposely to assess the degree of school effectiveness among public secondary schools of Zamfara State, Nigeria. In order to achieve this fundamental objective, one research question was formulated. A descriptive survey research design was adopted in the study. Population of the study comprised the entire 2361 classroom teachers deployed in the 158 public secondary schools of Zamfara State-Nigeria. From the population of the study, a sample size of 266 teachers was extracted using a ‘Multistage Random Sampling Technique’. A semi-structured questionnaire developed by Lezzote and Snyder (2011) on a five Likert type scale instrument with 21 items was employed as an instrument for data collection. The instrument composite reliability was computed using Cronbach’s alpha method and obtained the value of .949. All data covered in the study were collected through a field survey approach. Analytically, the current study discovered that, the degree of school effectiveness was at a high extent with mean score (M=3.68, SD=0.15). Based on this finding, the paper recommends that, stakeholders in educational sector comprising government’s ministries, departments and agencies, policymakers, secondary schools’ principals, instructional teachers as well as the learners and their parents/guardians should reciprocally work together in the process of appropriate perpetration and advancement of effective school system and its practices.
Education and health are the two important components of human capital. Education is a powerful instrument in reducing poverty, enhancing earnings, economic growth, empowering people, and promoting a healthy and flexible environment and creating competitive economy. It plays an important role in shaping the ways to become skilled and handle with the complexities of economic growth by the future generations. On the other hand health is a basic and key ingredient of human capital and an important determinant of economic growth. The main objective of this study was to examine the impact of education and health on the economic growth of Pakistan, using time series data from 1970-2010. To achieve this objective, the study was completed in different phases. In the first phase, a comprehensive literature review was carried out using standard sources and tools for the better understanding of theoretical and emperical aspects of the study. In the second phase secondary data were collected from the State Bank of Pakistan and World Development Indicators. A total of eight variables was selected for the study i.e. public spending on education and health, enrollment at primary, secondary and tertiary level, life expectancy and infant mortality rate. The collected data for these variables was analyzed using computer software EViews version 5. During data analysis different econometric techniques were applied to examine the stationarity of data and long run and the short run relationship between education, health and economic growth. For stationarity, long run and short run relationship Augmented Dickey Fuller (ADF) and Philips Perron (PP) tests, Engle Granger two step procedure, Auto Regressive Distributive Lags (ARDL) and Error Correction Mechanism (ECM) were used respectively. The validity of ARDL and ECM models was checked by Auto Correlation, Heteroscedasticity, Auto Regressive Conditional Heteroscedasticity, and parameter stablity tests. The results of these tests confirmed that these models are best fitted. The findings of Augmented Dickey Fuller and Philips Perron tests show that all variable are unit root at level and stationary at first difference or co-integrated of order one. The results of Engle Granger two step procedure and ARDL tests confirmed that education, health and economic growth have a long run relationship whereas, Error iiCorrection Mechanism also confirmed their short run relationship. The results of linear regression show that education and health have a positive and significant impact on the economic growth of Pakistan. This study also found that education; health and economic growth are co-integrated and have a long run relationship. Health and education play a major and important role in determining the long run economic growth of Pakistan. The study confirmed that if government increases budget for education and health, more people will be educated which will result in more educated workers and resultantly more production. Similarly, it will also have a good impact on the health of the general public. The study suggests that the government of Pakistan should consider education and health sectors while formulating policies and must allocate sufficient budget for them.