A look at the education system in Pakistan unveils lots of issues, challenges, and improvements for quality education and a proper education system. The government taking good steps to improve the education system and make modern changes.
The system is managed by the Federal Ministry of Education, as per law provisional responsible for free and quality education for 5 to 16 years children. In Pakistan, the education system is divided into various levels like Preschool (from the age 3 to 5 years children), primary (from class 1 to 5), middle ( from class 6 to 8), Secondary School (from nine ten), Higher Secondary School (from 1st year to Intermediate) and graduation from any University.
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The Higher Education Commission of Pakistan manages Universities, and colleges programs under its management. HEC was established in 2002 under the chairmanship of Atta-ur-Raham.
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Pakistan Literacy Ratio
The literacy ratio means the number of literate people in the country, according to the Ministry of Federal Education the literacy ratio is 62.3 which means that sixty million people are educated in the country.
As per official data, 67.5% of children finished their primary education and most children in Pakistan are unaware of education also lots of students couldn’t complete their education and leave it for a reason or financial crises.
Stages of the Education System in Pakistan
Preschool/ Primary: The primary or preschool is the basic stage of education for a child to start learning. In primary school, children learn to behave, the basics of education, the alphabet, learn to read, listen, write, and much more.
In this modern time, there are no modern facilities provided to primary schools to boost education and teach children with modern tools and ways.
Middle School: According to data 46,800 middle schools are registered in Pakistan, but for these schools, there are no facilities for bathrooms, water coolers, or electricity. And other hard areas there’s no school established yet for children who can not go city to study.
Secondary Schools: In secondary schools, students get an education in 9th and 10th classes, it very essential for schools to have facility of libraries, science laboratories for practical work, free books, water facilities, and modern equipment to learn in a new way.
Higher Secondary School: Students can boost education in 11th and 12th classes, in this stage students prepare for University to go for higher education and get a graduation degree. This stage plays an important role in their education.
Educational Challenges in Pakistan
The major challenge in Pakistan’s education system is the late update of textbooks with modern research and techniques to help students learn advanced knowledge. Currently, books are distributed with old printed papers.
Each state’s education department should change textbooks and provide informative and modern researched content for students. At this time, the government should provide facilities related to the IT field add short courses to schools, and create new subjects for students to learn about Information Technology.
Other countries give preference to Information Technology, and through this, they make big changes and provide free learning resources for students in primary, secondary, and higher secondary schools.
Teacher Training Programs
Teacher Training Programs are very essential to developing and producing quality education and access to free learning resources. Help teachers guide them to teach students adequately and create a learning environment in schools with educational activities.
Help events, seminars, and training programs with professors, lecturers, and other professional teachers who can suggest to improve education in schools, and spread education awareness in every village.
Solve Teacher Issues
Teachers can spread the quality of education if they are free from issues by the government side, the one issue is low salary. In Pakistan, teachers get very low salaries in comparison to other government employees.
Conclusion
The article helps teachers learn more about the education system specifically in Pakistan, and also I have addressed many teacher’s issues in this article. In our next article, we learn about more education systems of foreign countries and their management system and how students are getting benefits form government colleges, schools and universities.
