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Smart School, first of its kind in Pakistan
« on: September 02, 2013, 12:47:21 PM »
Smart School, first of its kind in Pakistan
Lahore: September 02: In just a year, the Smart School, which is stated to be a first of its kind technology-based educational initiative in Pakistan, has proved a resounding success for provision of affordable and quality learning facilities to all.
Latest electronic learning facilities, like e-board, animated lectures, integrated and uniform curriculum, have been provided from early classes under an extensive network of Smart School, covering far flung towns, tehsils and main cities. With an affordable fee structure, lower-middle class has been given the opportunity to get benefits from the best educational facilities at their doorstep, said Sajjad Haider, Project Director, the Smart Schools while talking to The News.
 

The Smart School is a project of City School that has earned a reputation of imparting quality education over the last 35 years. We want the same level of excellence in education through technological skills for imparting education to comparatively less privileged strata of society through Smart Schools, he observed. One of the focus areas of this technology-based learning is to reduce burden of school bag on student, he said and added that intensive study at schools enabled students in learning basic concepts in an interactive way. We are not eliminating books but the method of study is designed in a way that students discuss basic concepts in groups with the help of animations and touchscreen boards, he added. The Smart School sets up web portal, allowing management of school and network of teachers to stay connected for running day-to-day affairs as well as imparting education.

 

In just first few weeks of its launching last year, we were able to set up 100 franchises in the country, he said. This fast spreading network, he added, would help achieve goal of education for all in a very speedy way. With a view to providing best educational facilities, Haider said management of Smart School extended full support to the network of franchises in the field of curriculum, teacher training, modern labs, sports and other facilities. Our intensive training programme offers training to teachers, principals, managerial and account staff in order to maintain excellent level of knowledge dissemination, he said. We attach top priority to professional development of teachers, helping management of each school to maintaining standards. Being a true nationwide educational institution, Smart School imparts uniform curriculum and provides similar facilities across Pakistan - from interior Sindh to Balochistan, Khyber Pakhtonkhwa, Southern Punjab and Azad Kashmir, he said, claiming schooling system offered premium education from early schooling to matriculation in a coherent and efficient manner.

 

Having a decentralized management system at various regions, independent administration helps in ensuring standardized systems throughout network of schools, Haider said. He maintained that we strictly monitor progress of each school and continuous improvement is a key to progress at Smart Schools.

 

In order to manage a standardized structure of education, he said, a centralized head office provide continuous support to the franchises. Sajjad Haider said that students were fully facilitated during education. If a student wanted inter-city or intra-city transfer, we fully help student accommodate his or her choice of branch. This facility leads to unhindered study facility to students. Moreover, he said, under an insurance plan, the Smart School offers student rest of his or her education totally free if his father unfortunately died during study.
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