This document discusses education and its issues in Pakistan. It identifies several problems with Pakistan's education system including unequal access based on public or private schools, a lack of technical education, gender discrimination, untrained teachers, insufficient resources, and poverty restricting access. Some statistics are presented on Pakistan's low literacy and education rates compared to other countries. The document concludes by outlining potential solutions such as improved implementation of policies, workshops for teachers, increasing technical education, and consulting education experts when developing plans and policies.
3. WHAT IS EDUCATION?
• Education is the simple process of learning
and knowing.
• Home is called first school of the children,
but the formal education starts from the
school, where they are taught, how to
behave and understand what is going on
around them.
• It involves students acquiring knowledge,
skills, attitudes and values that will be part
of their life.
• Education is not only cognitive and
intellectual learning, and learning of skills
and work-related competences.
4. • It makes one able to understand what is
happening around us logically and clearly.
•Only educated person has the ability to take
practical decisions and make right moves at
the right time.
•An educated person with self-confidence
and precise moves knows how to transform
the world.
Importance of Education
5.
6. In Human development Report Pakistan is at 136th position having just 49.9%
educated population.
Pakistan is ranked at 113th out of 120 registered UN members by research
conducted by UNESCO.
Basic flaws of education system in Pakistan contribute to the economic, ethnic and
sociopolitical crisis.
A cheapest defense for a nation , unfortunately it is one of the biggest problems in
Pakistan.
The literacy rate in Pakistan is about 55% in 2012-2013.
The education sector is facing crisis just like other major sectors of the country.
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Educational issues in Pakistan
8. Education system is based on
unequal lines
Medium of education is different
in both, public and private
sector. This creates a sort of
disparity among people, dividing
them into two segments.
9. Lack of technical education
The lack of technical education is a
biggest flaw in the education policy
that has never been focused before.
Therefore, less technical people
means low standard of education.
10. Gender Discrimination
As there is a 10:4 ratio of boys and girls respectively in primary schools
For the last few years there has been an increase in the growth of private
schools.
That not only harms the quality of education but creates a gap among haves
and has not.
11. Untrained Teachers
The teachers in government schools are not
well trained.
People who do not get job in any other
sector, they try their luck in educational
system.
They are not professionally trained teachers
so they are unable to train a nation.
12. Academic Problems
Resources regarding education are not
enough in Pakistan
But the problem is that we are not taking
benefits of available resources
Resources are not being utilized properly
due to presence of unskilled, dishonest and
less educated administration.
13. POVERTY
Poverty is also another factor that restricts
the parents to send their children to
public or private schools. So, they prefer
to send their children to madrassas
where education is totally free.
14. Solutions
Implementation instead of projecting policies
should be focused on.
Workshops must be arranged for teachers.
Technical education must be given to all the classes.
Teachers, professors and educationists should be
consulted while devising any plan, syllabus or
policy.
The need of time is to bring education in its original
form to masses.