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Corruption in education sector

ISLAMABAD:
In today’s Pakistan, one fails to find a department or organisation at the federal or provincial levels that is free of corruption. It is also very hard to find people in authority who are honest. Everyone seems to be indulging in corruption within his or her own power or capacity. In the words of Lord John Acton, “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.”

Indeed, education and ethics can play a pivotal role in the fight against corruption, but what would the future of a nation be where education and ethics have been corrupted so adversely that those who educate and enlighten have turned to corruption themselves? It is corruption in the education sector, from primary to the university level, which keeps hundreds of thousands of talented children — both, boys and girls — out of educational institutions. I know of several teachers and professors from different public-sector universities from across Pakistan, who would either come to the university on foot, on the teachers’ bus or sometimes in their second-hand personal cars. When they became vice-chancellors, their conditions enviably transformed but they did nothing to promote quality education. They did everything to disrupt, damage and deform their university and its educational milieu, all the while striving to fatten their pockets. Initially residing in rented homes, when they retired, they became owners of multiple bungalows, along with acquiring huge bank balances and other movable and immovable property within the country and abroad.

The question is: how do people in our education sector become millionaires and owners of palatial bungalows during service? Why isn’t there anyone who initiates auditing and fiscal accountability of vice-chancellors? In Sindh, even primary and secondary schoolteachers are reportedly millionaires. Like many others in this country, I strongly believe that unfettered power and authority, and a lust for money have corrupted, more or less, every government official at every level. What’s most alarming is that the rampant corruption in different public-sector varsities and other educational institutions is actually being tolerated by the people, the Higher Education Commission and also by the Auditor General of Pakistan.

Hashim Abro

Published in The Express Tribune, September 11th,  2015.


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