International Journal of Current Research Vol. 8, Issue, 07, pp.34447-34458, July, 2016, 2016
This article tried to examine education policies and five years development plans in education se... more This article tried to examine education policies and five years development plans in education sector particularly focusing on secondary education strategies pertaining to secondary education, allocation and utilization of funds for secondary education, reviewing the targets and achievements related to secondary education and major education policies and nine five year plans were developed which had tried to address the problems and issues of education sector in Pakistan. The main focus of these policies and plans was on access quality of education, reducing gender disparity in educational provisions, education governance, structure of education, science education, technical and vocational education and relevance of education. The policies and plans also focused on rehabilitation of schools to accommodate the output of primary schools. The policies and plans had also put emphasis on qualitative aspects of secondary education by updatin textbooks, reforming examination systems, and enhancing the capacity of teaching force. Unfortunately most of the policies and plans could not achieve their objectives due to lack of political will, inconsistency policy changes with change of governments, lack of financial resources, poor governance, weak government structure for implementation and monitoring of policies and plans, non development plans, lack o coordination between policy makers and implementers, non instability and ignorance on the part of the masses. Despite a education policies and plans, the education system of Pakistan is still facing numerous issues and challenges which include high illiteracy rate, low budgetary provision for education in terms of GNP, low all levels of education, high dropout rate , inequality in educational provisions across regions and gender, lack of facilities for professional development of teachers, outdated curricula and poor quality of teaching and learning materials, poor physical infrastructure, poor management and supervision, and poor quality of education.
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i) To explore current status of the implementation NEP 2009 at provincial and regional level.
ii) To develop way forward for the improvement of implementation and review of the National Education Policy
In this context, research teams of AEPAM visited provincial headquarters, i.e. Lahore, Karachi, Peshawar and Quetta and regions i.e. Gilgit Baltistan, Azad Jammu and Kashmir and Islamabad to collect information. The research team conducted focus group discussions with heads of departments. This report was developed on the basis of collected information from the field visits.
i) To explore current status of the implementation NEP 2009 at provincial and regional level.
ii) To develop way forward for the improvement of implementation and review of the National Education Policy
In this context, research teams of AEPAM visited provincial headquarters, i.e. Lahore, Karachi, Peshawar and Quetta and regions i.e. Gilgit Baltistan, Azad Jammu and Kashmir and Islamabad to collect information. The research team conducted focus group discussions with heads of departments. This report was developed on the basis of collected information from the field visits.