Policies mostly remain focused on the elementary and secondary education
HYDERABAD: With over 20 million children out of school, Pakistan clearly lags behind its Sustainable Development Goal of reaching the 90% literacy rate by the year 2025, the greater part of which comprises the mediocrity of government-run schools and institutions, where the problem is twofold. First, policies mostly remain focused on the elementary and secondary education.
Further, due to the difference between the curriculum taught in private and government institutions, students from government schools find it hard to secure a job equivalent to one offered to a graduate from a renowned private university. However, many international education reform programmes are now working with the government schools. All this raises questions about the programmes and policies that the ministry of education and the departments concerned have planned and implemented.
Aman Ahmad
Published in The Express Tribune, October 29th, 2017.
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