Muhammad Saifullah Malik

(i11-0352)
BS Electrical Engineering
National University of Computer & Emerging
Sciences (NUCES) Islamabad

Education Crisis In
Pakistan
Issues & Recommendations

ISSUES

ISSUES

Lack of Political Will and Good Governance.

Inadequate Access to and Poor Quality of School

Education.

Ineffective Examination and Textbook Boards.

Disconnect Between Madressah Education and

Formal Education.

Undermining of Role of Higher Education

Commission and Inadequate Funding.

RECOMMENDATIONS

POLITICAL WILL AND GOOD GOVERNANCE

Initiate

education reform.
Increase education budget.
Separate the education cadre from
the Basic Pay Scales of government
employees.

EDUCATION POLICY
Redefine

role of Federal Ministry of

Education.
Provincial governments should shoulder
the responsibility.
Ensure Devolution of education system.
The Education Policy 2009.

ACCESS TO AND IMPROVING QUALITY OF

SCHOOL EDUCATION
Public

sector institutions.

Public-private

partnerships.

Use

of ICT.

The

Vouchers Scheme implementation in

other provinces.
Investment

in Early Childhood Education

and Development.

EXAMINATION & TEXTBOOK

BOARDS
School-based

assessment should focus on

student learning competencies.

Critical
Other

and analytical thinking skills.

provinces should replicate initiative

of Punjab Examinations Commission

(PEC).
Private

sector Exam Boards be encouraged .

EXAMINATION & TEXTBOOK

BOARDS
Strengthen

Education Assessment

Centre (PEAC).
National

Testing Services (NTS) must be

strengthened.
Textbook

well.

Boards must play their part as

MADRESSAH EDUCATION
Form
Free

a national expert group.

boarding schools at grassroots level.

Develop

quality assurance framework for

accreditation /certification purposes.

Introduce

TVET program in Madressahs.

Introduce

mandatory professional

development courses for teachers and

heads of Madressahs.

HIGHER EDUCATION
Retain

HEC and ensure its autonomy.

Creation

of an efficient & productive Task

Force .
Increased
Avoid

Budget Allocation.

mushrooming of poor quality

universities.
Universities

strategy.

CONCLUSION