How Pakistan educational system can be an example?

Few months ago a consultation with Parliamentarians on education for all in Pakistan was organized by PILDAT. In this session they have developed some recommendation about education in Pakistan.

   · We must clearly focus on quality, gender equality, and improvement in literacy, learning opportunities for the young and adults, free and compulsory basic education and early childhood education. The early childhood education provides an essential basis for whole of the education. It is time to have transition from home to school.

·      We have to recognize that Pakistan needs to make significant investment in education if it needs to address its issues related to EFA. There are inter-regional variations across Pakistan. In some parts of Pakistan, access to education, its quality and literacy are better and in some cases it lags far behind. This disparity needs to be addressed.

·      There is also a need to increase accountability in the educational system. Recruitment of teachers should be free from any political influence. Pakistan needs to put in place mechanisms which encourage priority budget allocations for free primary, and if possible, secondary education. The budget allocation framework needs to be reviewed and linked to targets. Accountability, to use the budget appropriately be strengthened and integrated with the development of education.

·      Education is linked to other factors like health and we need to develop linkages with the health sector, manpower, planning, etc. in the success of vibrant and rigorous education system.

·      Provincial governments should take initiatives to improve the quality of the basic education. To ensure the quality education we have to fix the ratio between students per class. It’s nearly impossible to carry good results from class of 200 students

·      We should encourage adult religious awareness programs. This will eradicate extremism and terrorism from the society. We should encourage religious education among adults so that they are not misled by miscreants in the name of religion.

·      We should share good practices and have practical and real approach to improve the quality of education. The funding is not major problem in Pakistan but donors have apprehensions about the utilization of the money. The leadership of the country should take the responsibility of proper utilization of money. We would unite to ensure good governance. The international donors should do more for the improvement in the educational system in the country. The government schools lack in teachers and facilities.

·      There should be reappraisal of educational priorities and resource allocation in keeping with the global development scenarios. The public budget allocation has to be raised to 4-5 per cent of the GDP.

·      The parliamentarians should convince the political leadership of their respective parties to focus on education. The procedure to release funds needs to be simplified and decentralized. The private sector and NGOs should be involved with incentive-oriented approach to generate funds for promotion of education.

   The issue is there either these recommendation will work or just paper work government just work on roads and developed infrastructure but they forget about those children who are suffer to approach the school. They don’t have clear water to wash the hand and even have no facility for toilet.

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