Punjab Education Foundation (PEF) has established an elaborate system of schools’ monitoring at the district level in the Punjab so that the required standards of quality education could be maintained in a transparent manner. In this regard, PEF board of directors has also accorded approval to recruit one hundred additional monitoring and evaluation assistants, keeping in view the expanding work of the foundation, in the education sector. This M&E staff will also be posted at the district level.
Managing Director PEF Tariq Mahmood said this while talking to a three-member delegation of technical assistance management office (TAMO) at his office on Friday. The TAMO team included team leader Michael Dowling, team leader roadmap Asad Hussain and Awais Iqbal Qureshi. PEF deputy MDs and program directors were also present on the occasion. While talking to the delegation, Tariq Mahmood said that latest tablets have been provided to the monitoring staff posted in different districts; and added that research and analysis wing would also be set up in the foundation to analyze the data in an integrated way. This would help in scientific analyses of different educational interventions. PEF monitoring mechanism would also be helpful in maintaining required standards of organizational transparency, he added.
The meeting also reviewed different proposals to further improve and enhance the scope of annually held quality assurance test (QAT). Earlier, TAMO team briefed the participants about different proposals of schools monitoring.