EDUCATION SYSTEM IN PAKISTAN

Table of Contents

• Introduction

• Educational System of Pakistan

• Educational Statistics

• Factors Affecting Literacy Rate

• Achievements

INTRODUCTION

• The educational system of Pakistan is among the least-developed in the world. The system was based on the British colonial educational system, which lasted until 1947. The colonial system was meant to educate a small portion of the population to run the government.

• They are three main sectors of education system in Pakistan:

• Formal Education

• Informal Education

• Religious Education

Formal Education 

• Formal education means education or training received from institutions like schools, colleges, or universities. For example, to become a doctor, one should receive formal education.

Education System Of Pakistan 

Informal Education

• Informal education is a general term for education outside of a standard school setting. It can refer to various forms of alternative.

• The government provide teacher’s salary and material whereas community provide school building/room.

• It is called informal because; it has no regular curriculum, not obligatory and no formal certification.

Religious Education

• Religious education system provides Islamic education. Institutions have there own management system. They run on aid provided by government or other party. Pakistan Madrassa boards are established to regulate Madrassa activities. They provide free religious education with boarding and logging.

Educational Statistics

• The education system of Pakistan is comprised of 270,825 institutions and is facilitating 40,926,661 students with the help of 1,507,100 teachers.

• It composed of 194,151 public and 76,674 private institutions.

• sector wise distribution of educational institution in percentages is 28% in Private and 72% in Public sector.

Educational Expenditure

• Government spends 2% of its GDP on education. According to Dawn News Pakistan has one of the world’s largest out of school population, about 7.3 million.

• Total public expenditure on education as a percentage of GDP was 2.9 in 2007, compared to 2.6 in 1998.

Educational statistics by categories

There are five categories of educational statistics

• Primary

• Middle

• High

• Higher Secondary

• Deeni Madaris

Primary

• Primary Education is the most important step in a child’s educational career. It can make or break the child’s educational career. The Primary stage of education in Pakistan enrolls 16.894 Million leaner’s/students. Out of which 11.664 million (69%) are in public sector and (21%) in private sector.

Middle

• Middle school includes grades six through eight. In Pakistan, there are 41,591 school of which 15, 722 (38%) are in public sector, whereas 25, 869 (62%) are in private sector.

High

• High School is also known as Secondary school usually compulsory up to a specified age. The total enrolment at high school is 2.569 million, of which 1.775 million (71%) as in public sector, whereas, 0.735 million (29%) is in private sector.

Higher Secondary

• The Higher Secondary Schools include grades 11 and 12. There are 3,435 higher secondary schools/ inter colleges in education system of Pakistan. The total enrolment at higher secondary schools/ inter colleges stage is 1.146 million of which 0.955 million (83%) is in public sector, whereas, 0.191 million (17%) is in private sector.

Deeni Madaris

• Deeni Madaris also play important and significant role in adult education and learning in Pakistan. The main emphasis of Madrassah education is Islamic Education and Teachings. Currently there are 12,910 Deeni Madaris working in Pakistan. The total enrolment in the Deeni Madaris is 1.723 million of which 0.051 million (3%) is in the public sector, whereas, 1.672 million (97%) is in the private sector. The total male enrolment in Deeni Madaris is 1.073 million (62%), whereas, the female enrolment is 0.650 million (38%).

Factors Affecting Literacy Rate in Pakistan

• There are following factors affecting rate in Pakistan

• Feudalism In Pakistan

• Gender Issue

• Fertility Rate

• Cost Of Education

Feudalism in Pakistan

• The feudal consists of landlords with large joint families possessing hundreds or even thousands of acres of land. They operates in remote areas of Pakistan , sometimes even operates a private prison in which they kept enemies or even local people.

Gender Issue

• In Pakistan the division of labor and family responsibilities have been the main barriers in achieving a female literacy rate equal to that of males. The lowest female literacy rate in Pakistan is in district Kohistan (2.95 %) and highest in Karachi Central (73.92 %).

Fertility Rate

• Pakistan the fertility rate is directly dependent on the level of education of mothers. In other words, the educational level of mothers influences family size. The illiterate women in high literacy regions have 4.74 children on an average, while literate and secondary school certificate holder women have 3.63 –3.24 children. Fertility rate directly effect the economic condition of a country.

Cost of Education

• The cost of education is another determinant for parents to decide whether to send their children; to government schools, private schools or no schools. Cost of education has increased further due to increased inflation. Educating a child in private school costs twice to society compared to the cost in public school. Although private schools appear cheaper but government fees appear “free” to parents.

Achievements

• Dr Abdus Salam, Pakistan’s first and only theoretical physicist and Nobel Prize winner.

• 14 year old Pakistani student Sikandar Mehmood Baloch has made world record after creating Microsoft and Google certified seven computer operating systems.

• Fawad Hassan secured 9A* in A levels. Now studying on scholarship at McGill University, Canada.

• Ali Nawaz-ish from Rawalpindi broke a world record when he passed 23 A-levels in subjects including pure mathematics, travel and tourism, and sociology. The 18 year old received 21 A grades and a B and a C.

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