Punjab announces Urdu as medium of instruction at schools from next year

[Yankee-stani]

ISLAMABAD: Punjab government plans to say goodbye to English at primary school level and introduce national language, Urdu, as medium of instruction from next academic year i.e. March 2020.

This was announced by provincial Chief Minister Sardar Usman Khan Buzdar on Saturday in a social media post.

Buzdar took to Twitter to explain learning in Urdu language would save the time of teachers as well as students as earlier teachers used to translate various topics from English to Urdu.


Much of their time was thus wasted in translation instead of comprehension as the current medium of instruction is English.


As a result, the pupils fail to learn anything new, he added.

Buzdar further revealed that a survey was conducted by school education department of the province in 22 districts of Punjab.

A large number of teachers, parents and students were asked what in their view should be the medium of learning at schools.

Over 85 per cent were of the opinion that Urdu should be medium of instruction instead of English at schools.

So he said that from next March the medium of instruction in primary schools of Punjab will be Urdu. But English will still be taught as a language.


In the past, Pakistan has seen debates over medium of instruction at schools, colleges and university level.

Two months ago, Senate of Pakistan also passed a resolution recommending the candidates appearing for the country’s Central Superior Services (CSS) exams be allowed to attempt questions in Urdu as well.

On May 14, 2019, Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Amir Sirajul Haq moved the resolution in the Upper House, demanding that the CSS exams be taken in Urdu.

He said that China, Japan and other countries developed because of the use of their national language in exams. “We can also progress by holding the CSS exams in Urdu,” he opined.

Sirajul Haq said only five per cent of candidates could pass compulsory subjects.


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Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Ali Muhammad Khan said the CSS exam consisted of six compulsory subjects and 45 optional, and added that all compulsory subjects were taught in English language at universities.

He supported Siraj’s resolution and said the CSS aspirants should be allowed to take their exams in the language of their choice.

Towards the end of the debate, the Senate adopted a resolution with an amendment that Urdu be added as an optional language in the exams alongside English.

 

[jamal18]

Great news. Almost every country in the world educates people in their own language, certainly in Europe.

 

[Riyaz Syed]

URDU is the common heritage of all South Asian Muslims. And all should adopt it.

 

[war&peace]

Excellent decision. Here in Sweden, English is taught at as a language in secondary/higher secondary schools and not used as a medium of instruction and still they speak English with near native fluency and accent.

However, it won't be effective we still have private English medium schools so all the schools must follow the same system.

 

[VCheng]

Punjab government plans to say goodbye to English at primary school level and introduce national language, Urdu, as medium of instruction from next academic year i.e. March 2020.

That is great, but only if it applies to all children in all schools. Otherwise there will be two-tier system that will be unfair.

 

[NAVDEEP DHALIWAL]

This is not practical , here also parents wants to their children to speak in English. This will only make the poor children who have no option to go to government schools to be left out.

When they grow up they will lag behind in every field cause the English speaking kids will get the jobs , cause in India and Pakistan we consider The English speaking person to be Very intelligent.

This will increase the divide , rich kids speaks english poor kids urdu.

Te Punjabi/ urdu bolan waale nu appa anpadh ja pendu kehande a.

 

[AUz]

Government should ban the O-levels, A-levels bullsh*t----and implement an advanced, well-thoughout Pakistani national curriculum across the board. The curriculum should be designed to make our work force competitive in terms of technical skills and at the same time smartly projects Pakistani narrative and interests, as all nations in the world do.

Currently, our matric curriculum is too outdated and O-levels/A-levels is literally making students 'Brown' angraiz...

 

[Indus Pakistan]

Disaster. Bye bye PDF.

 

[Winchester]

I wonder if any of people of the people posting here about how great this step is would actually send their kids to schools with Urdu as a medium of instruction.

Secondly Punjabi would the mother tongue of most of these kids especially in rural Punjab and if the intention is to help children get a better understanding than why not let Punjabi be the teaching medium.

Like English, Urdu could be taught as a subject only.

 

[Lincoln]

Government should ban the O-levels, A-levels bullsh*t----and implement an advanced, well-thoughout Pakistani national curriculum across the board. The curriculum should be designed to make our work force competitive in terms of technical skills and at the same time smartly projects Pakistani narrative and interests, as all nations in the world do.

Currently, our matric curriculum is too outdated and O-levels/A-levels is literally making students 'Brown' angraiz...

Here's the issue people here sitting abroad don't understand.

The Pakistani national curriculum is horrible. It is the epitome of rote learning. Many universities abroad don't favor it or have set a very high standard for it ( i.e. 90% ), and some don't even recognize it and require students to attend a foundational year.

A Levels is not about "brown angraiz," the level of education and the purpose of its curriculum is well thought out and is refreshed with the changing world. There is no corruption, cheating and there is a high standard.

You won't find that in the current Pakistani system.

If you want to improve your education system, start by actually making it work, not by eliminating those actually work so you have nothing to compete against it.

Thanks.

 

[B.K.N]

In Punjab government and most of the private schools are already Urdu medium

 

[jamal18]

Excellent decision. Here in Sweden, English is taught at as a language in secondary school and not used as a medium of instruction and still they speak very good English.
However, it won't be effective we still have private English medium schools so all the schools must follow the same system.

White people get on fine without English, only taught as a foreign language.

When they grow up they will lag behind in every field cause the English speaking kids will get the jobs , cause in India and Pakistan we consider The English speaking person to be Very intelligent.
.

It's called an inferiority complex.

 

[Winchester]

Here's the issue people here sitting abroad don't understand.

Some people not all.

People who have migrated to the West based on their skill set and not through family sponsorship understand the difference.

 

[B.K.N]

Secondly Punjabi would the mother tongue of most of these kids especially in rural Punjab and if the intention is to help children get a better understanding than why not let Punjabi be the teaching medium.

Actually teachers and students talk with each other in Punjabi

 

[Maarkhoor]

ISLAMABAD: Punjab government plans to say goodbye to English at primary school level and introduce national language, Urdu, as medium of instruction from next academic year i.e. March 2020.

This was announced by provincial Chief Minister Sardar Usman Khan Buzdar on Saturday in a social media post.

Buzdar took to Twitter to explain learning in Urdu language would save the time of teachers as well as students as earlier teachers used to translate various topics from English to Urdu.


Much of their time was thus wasted in translation instead of comprehension as the current medium of instruction is English.


As a result, the pupils fail to learn anything new, he added.

Buzdar further revealed that a survey was conducted by school education department of the province in 22 districts of Punjab.

A large number of teachers, parents and students were asked what in their view should be the medium of learning at schools.

Over 85 per cent were of the opinion that Urdu should be medium of instruction instead of English at schools.

So he said that from next March the medium of instruction in primary schools of Punjab will be Urdu. But English will still be taught as a language.


In the past, Pakistan has seen debates over medium of instruction at schools, colleges and university level.

Two months ago, Senate of Pakistan also passed a resolution recommending the candidates appearing for the country’s Central Superior Services (CSS) exams be allowed to attempt questions in Urdu as well.

On May 14, 2019, Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Amir Sirajul Haq moved the resolution in the Upper House, demanding that the CSS exams be taken in Urdu.

He said that China, Japan and other countries developed because of the use of their national language in exams. “We can also progress by holding the CSS exams in Urdu,” he opined.

Sirajul Haq said only five per cent of candidates could pass compulsory subjects.


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Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Ali Muhammad Khan said the CSS exam consisted of six compulsory subjects and 45 optional, and added that all compulsory subjects were taught in English language at universities.

He supported Siraj’s resolution and said the CSS aspirants should be allowed to take their exams in the language of their choice.

Towards the end of the debate, the Senate adopted a resolution with an amendment that Urdu be added as an optional language in the exams alongside English.

Foolishness at its best......

Expected from an idiot like Buzdaar....

After 10 year new user may ask @WebMaster to use Urdu instead of English in the same forum.