Education system of Hyderabad
has gone down due to number of problems like, escalation of population, increase
in numbers of students, lack of government policies, quality educational
institutions. During last ten years education in Hyderabad has witnessed many
negative changes. Hyderabad city has history of appreciable and quantity of
schools. News Vidyala, now known as Sindh University old campus, built in 1912
was one of the best school of that time. Sadhu Naval Rai Hirachand Academy was
built in 1900 now known as government high school, which is even today the
biggest high school in public sector. Another historic academy Noor Muhammad
high school was built in 1933. These schools founded by the philanthropists,
laid foundation of quality education not only in the city but all over the
province. Now those schools had gone downward because lack of facilities is
provided by government, poor utilization of funds. Another cause of backwardness
of Hyderabad’s educational institutions is that government has let free space
which was filled by private some of them franchised schools, including, The
Educators, Beacon house, City foundation, etc.
Nearly every street one can find a private school where coaching centres are
also run in the evening. But this has not improved the state of education.
Education has become market commodity people have invested in private schools
and are minting money. Despite high fees quality of education is lacking in
these education institutions. Many educational institutions have not their
building, scientific laboratories and trained teachers. According to an official
report there are hundreds of ghosts schools in public sector(enrolled in
papers), which has further opened the venues for private sector.
Apart from claims of the government officials and private schools a good number
of children is out of school. Out of 4,68,357 children between 5 to 14 years in
Hyderabad only 2,81,245 are enrolled, the remaining unlucky children could not
get education because of poverty their parents get them done work to earn some
money instead of getting education.
Copy culture and corruption have become order the day hence students are not
taking much interest in studies. These two evils are pushing the student’s
future to darkness.
These changes have negatively affected parent’s attitude. Some ten years ago
parents used to concentrate their children’s studies and pay higher school and
tuition fees, now they pay money at board for their children’s result there
permutation are caused by depraved board system where result is being sold and
this is fraudulence for hardworking student who depend on merit . Beside
political interventions has paralyzed the system. Students at college and
university level instead of giving time to studies prefer to join political
group or party which facilitates them in unfair means in exams and admissions.
Some efforts including accountability of funds, monitoring, both at field and
management level, utilization of funds properly and set priorities, capacity
building of teaching and non teaching staff, awareness among the community so
that they should take education as their basic right and non interference of
politics within the education sectors can bring some desired results and can
ensure the quality education in the Sindh.