PEIRA to make private-sector’s role in education sector effective
Staff Report

ISLAMABAD—Chairman Private Educational Institutions Regulatory Authority (PEIRA) Commodore (R) Muhammad Sharif Shamshad said Thursday that establishment of authority was a sincere initiative to make role of private sector more effective in promotion of quality education.
Talking to APP, the chairman said the authority was pursuing a flexible approach on registering private-sector’s institutions to streamline their role in ensuring quality education for national prosperity.
He added that the PEIRA would also help ensure that private educational institutions were following a uniform policy. Replying to a question, he said PEIRA was in contact with unions of private institutions and their reservations had been addressed.
“Private institutions and their unions have hailed the authority’s efforts for introducing reforms and provision of guidance to them”, he added.
The chairman said the authority had, so far, registered about 450 private institutions out of the total 550, working in the Islamabad Capital Territory.
Similarly, he added that 543 educational institutions had applied so far and 522 had been inspected.
Answering another question, he said PEIRA teams would conduct inspection visits of private institutions after every two years to ensure that they had not stopped following rules and regulations.