Teacher Education plays a vital role in the development of quality education and implementing the change process at classroom level. The Primary Education Directorate, Government of Balochistan, with the cooperation of the Aga Khan University, Institute for Educational Development has implemented the Primary Teacher Mentoring Program (PTMP) in eighteen districts of Balochistan. It is a new initiative in primary teacher education by the Government of Balochistan. This investigation is a qualitative case study focusing on the impact of the mentoring process on primary teachers' professional development in the District Lasbella, Balochistan. In this study the major sources for data collection were interviews, observations, informal talks, and documentation reviews. The obtained data has been analyzed and it has been found that the PTMP is a needs-oriented and indigenous model of mentoring process in which limited resources and contextual situation have been considered. It provides a built-in mechanism of on-going professional development support to the teachers. It is a cluster-based support, where 30-40 teachers of the cluster along with a mentor gather for two days in a month and discuss their classroom & school related teaching learning issues & concerns and sort them out. The mentoring process seems to have created a collaborative learning environment, which has reduced isolated teachers' culture, enhanced their content and pedagogical knowledge and developed teachers as reflective practitioners. Certain challenges are associated with the PTMP, which affect the performance of mentors and mentees and consequently impinge negatively upon overall achievement of the PTMP. These challenges are weak organizational / physical infrastructure & resource constraints, workload of Teaching Learning Resource Team (TLRT), weak feedback and monitoring system, limited school-based follow-up & support, non-cooperation of some district officials & headteachers, and rigid government rules and regulations. However, there are certain possibilities within the program design that may overcome some above-mentioned difficulties in near future. These are: (a) decentralization policy of the PTMP; (b) PED will be in a position to put more time and energy in the consolidation of the program in the year 2000; and (c) more PDTs may join the PED to enhance its institutional capacity building.
لاہور میں دوست جالب میلے کا انعقاد کر رہے ہیں اور میں کاغذ اور قلم پکڑے اپنے ماضی میں کھو گیا دوستوں نے اصرار کیا کہ اسرار شاہ لکھو۔
میری دعا ہے کہ کوئی نیا ضیاء الحق پیدا نہ ہو اور مجھے عمرِ رفتہ میں لے جائے میںکالج سے نکلوں تو ایسی یونیورسٹی میں داخل ہو جائوں جہاں ڈاکٹر مبشر حسین ،میاں محمود علی قصوری رائو رشید،رضا کاظم ایڈووکیٹ چوہدری اعتزاز حسین ،جسٹس سعید حسن ،آئی اے رحمن ،پروفیسر امین مغل،چوہدری اصغر خادم ،رشید قریشی ،شعیب ہاشمی ،حمید اختر ،محمد علی ایکٹر اور حبیب جالبؔجیسے پروفیسر اور اساتذہ نظر بند ہوں نئی نسل نا واقف ہے کہ یہ تمام لوگ اپنی ذات میں ایک ادارہ تھے اور ان میں کچھ آج بھی حیات ہیں ۔
کوٹ لکھپت جیل بھی کیا جیل تھی ،جیل کے سپرنٹنڈنٹ نے جیل کی دیوار کے ساتھ شام کو واک کر نے کی اجازت دی ڈاکٹر مبشر صاحب جیل میں ’’ماں ‘‘کا کردارادا کر رہے تھے وہ جیل سے راشن لیتے اس کو پکواتے تمام لوگ چٹانوں پر بیٹھتے اور سب میں برابر تقسیم کرتے ۔صبح دس بجے سے لے کر دوپہرکے کھانے تک عبدا ﷲملک صاحب کے کمرے میں سٹڈی سرکل ہو تا اور آئی اے رحمن صاحب لیکچر دیتے اور تمام سر نگوں ہوتے ۔
حاجی رشید انور جن کا تعلق مزدور کسان پارٹی سے تھا کیا خوبصورت انسان تھے عمر کے اعتبار سے وہ میرے والد کی طرح تھے جسم میں سی آئی اے چونا منڈی کے تششدد کی دردیں موجود تھیں وہ صبح میرے جسم کو دباتے اور بچوں کی طرح پکارتے ہوئے اٹھاتے کہ ’’اسرار شاہ ‘‘اٹھ جائو سورج نکل آ یا...
Developmental projects are essential ingredients of prosperity and well-being. Every nation has to ensure that her people are living in a perfect and safe sociopolitical environment. However, it varies from region to region and place to place. UK as a country is a big economy which is capable of giving its people the type of security they need. For this purpose, various types of strategies have been emphasized which enable the government to look for the benefit of its people. Open data system is one of these important developments which have been initiated by the UK government to provide huge access to databases. It improves their learning and knowledge, and gives the opportunity to think ‘out of box’. It also enables people to polish their learning skills and take things out of their resources and utilize them fully. Although, there is some compulsion on the use of private data sources, yet it is necessary to know that not all data are confidential. The research looks into the pros and cons of using open data systems and to assess its impacts on the social and political development in UK. The use of open data system is not only beneficial for the people to perform their daily life tasks, it is important to evade corruption and foster great accountability of national institutions. So, there remains feeble chance of witnessing corruption in the society that could cause chaos in the nation. The use of open data systems is important for boosting up innovation and creativity for a developing country like Pakistan. Open data system has been seen playing a big part in establishing a trend of innovative growth pushed by the availability of these resources. The influence and impact of ‘Open Data’ has largely been observed during the recent Coronavirus pandemic (Covid-19) where the government has utilized the data to tackle the disease in Pakistan.
Soil salinity is one of the major abiotic stresses affecting growth and productivity of important crops worldwide. Sugarcane is a glycophyte crop of major economical value in tropical and subtropical countries of the world where salinity is an ever-increasing problem. Sugarcane plants grown under stressed conditions show not only arrested growth of various parts but also a decrease in sucrose content. During the recent years, tissue culture technique has gained importance in producing plants with improved salt tolerance through selection of salt-tolerant cells lines and their subsequent regeneration. During the present work, protocols were established for callus induction, maintenance and regeneration of the two sugarcane cultivars (cv. SPF 234 and cv. HSF 240). It was observed that the best medium for callus induction and maintenance was MS medium supplemented with 13.5 μM 2,4-D. Callus cultures at day 120 were shifted to the various regeneration media. It was observed that among the different media used, MS medium supplemented with 8.87 μM BAP and 0.5 μM TDZ was the best in terms of all the growth parameters studied for both the cultivars. However, the maximum regeneration frequency in cv. SPF 234 was greater (85 %) as compared to cv. HSF 240 (76 %). Best rooting (95 %) of the regenerated shoots in cv. SPF 234 was obtained on MS medium supplemented with 2 μM IBA at day 30. Almost similar results were recorded for in vitro-grown plants of cv. HSF 240 for percentage root formation on MS medium supplemented with 1 or 2 μM IBA with 94 and 93 % rooting respectively. Hardening of sugarcane plants was also successfully accomplished for both the sugarcane cultivars.