slamabad—ActionAid will arrange a panel discussion on “Education Financing in Pakistan: Challenges and Way Forward” on December 14 (Wednesday) to discuss the structural and nonstructural issues of public education financing in Pakistan.
The panel discussion will be organized in collaboration with Sustainable Development Policy Institute at 14th Sustainable Development Conference (SDC).
Education is a basic human right and Article 25 A of the constitution clearly states that the government is responsible for ensuring provision of ‘free and compulsory education to all children of the age of five to sixteen years in such a manner as may be amended by law’.
Besides Pakistan’s international commitments like United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and Education For All (EFA), the progress to meet education related challenges is not at all substantial.
Primary education envisioned in the MDGs is out of reach now because every child of primary age would need to have started the school in 2009.
Statistics show that 44% of females were able to enroll in primary schools as compared to 56% of males. Of which, 50% of enrolled children dropped out of school without finishing primary education.
The situation is far more crucial in the rural areas of the country where only 33% of females are literate as compared to 63% males.
The main reason for low literacy rate is mere allocation of budget (the national allocation is below three per cent of the GDP), which is mainly due to the lack of enabling environment in terms of political will and policy measures. Eventually all this leads to a poor quality of education.
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The panel discussion will be organized in collaboration with Sustainable Development Policy Institute at 14th Sustainable Development Conference (SDC).
Education is a basic human right and Article 25 A of the constitution clearly states that the government is responsible for ensuring provision of ‘free and compulsory education to all children of the age of five to sixteen years in such a manner as may be amended by law’.
Besides Pakistan’s international commitments like United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and Education For All (EFA), the progress to meet education related challenges is not at all substantial.
Primary education envisioned in the MDGs is out of reach now because every child of primary age would need to have started the school in 2009.
Statistics show that 44% of females were able to enroll in primary schools as compared to 56% of males. Of which, 50% of enrolled children dropped out of school without finishing primary education.
The situation is far more crucial in the rural areas of the country where only 33% of females are literate as compared to 63% males.
The main reason for low literacy rate is mere allocation of budget (the national allocation is below three per cent of the GDP), which is mainly due to the lack of enabling environment in terms of political will and policy measures. Eventually all this leads to a poor quality of education.
http://pakobserver.net
