Pakistan by Tilak Devasher

Author:Tilak Devasher
Language: eng
Format: epub
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Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers India
Published: 2016-04-11T04:00:00+00:00

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Education: An Emergency

Pakistan ranks 113th out of 120 countries in UNESCO’s Education for All Education Development Index. Pakistan’s literacy rate (57 per cent) lags well behind the country’s neighbours.’ This proportion also includes those who could only write their names. Literacy rate in rural areas of Pakistan is even lower at 50 per cent. Pakistan has low net enrolment ratios at all three levels – primary, secondary and tertiary – with a much lower female enrolment rate as compared to males. When we move from primary to secondary and tertiary levels, enrolment ratios decrease sharply. Pakistan has the world’s second highest out-of-school population of children. Public sector expenditure on education is barely 2 per cent of GDP. This is compounded by insufficient trained teachers and their absenteeism, and weak governance resulting in the poor quality of public schooling.1

—Pakistan Vision 2025

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