2. What is education
Education is the simple process of learning and knowing.
Home is called first school of the children, but the formal education
starts from the school, where they are taught, how to behave and
understand what is going on around them.
It involves students acquiring knowledge, skills, attitudes and values that
will be part of their life.
Education is not only cognitive and intellectual learning, and learning of
skills and work-related competences.
4. Importance of Education
It makes one able to understand what is happening around us logically
and clearly.
Only educated person has the ability to take practical decisions and make
right moves at the right time.
An educated person with self-confidence and precise moves knows how
to transform the world.
6. Why Education is Necessary
Every human being needs oxygen to survive in the world. Education is
as important as this because education gives people the knowledge
and skills they require. Education is important to people of all ages and
it has no limit. Children require education in order for them to learn how
to speak and to write. Students in higher education level require
knowledge in order to gain valuable information regarding what they
are studying about.
7. Educational issues in Pakistan
In Human development Report Pakistan is at 136th position having just
49.9% educated population.
Pakistan is ranked at 113th out of 120 registered UN members by
research conducted by UNESCO.
Basic flaws of education system in Pakistan contribute to the economic,
ethnic and sociopolitical crisis.
A cheapest defense for a nation , unfortunately it is one of the biggest
problems in Pakistan.
The literacy rate in Pakistan is about 55% in 2012-2013. The education
sector is facing crisis just like other major sectors of the country.
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8. Education system is based on unequal
lines
Medium of education is different in both, public and private sector. This
creates a sort of disparity among people, dividing them into two
segments.
9. Lack of Technical Education
The lack of technical education is a biggest flaw in the education policy
that has never been focused before. Therefore, less technical people
means low standard of education.
10. Literacy
Literacy rate is very low in Pakistan as compared to other
countries. Pakistan's literacy rate has declined from 60 percent to 58
percent, as revealed by the economic survey of Pakistan. Multiple factors
act as the reasons behind this, for instance, lack of government funds
to educational institutions.
The literacy rate measures the percentage of people aged 15 and above
who are able to read and write. In 2014, Pakistan's total literacy rate was
around 57 percent, with less than 45 percent of women being literate and
almost 70 percent of men.
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12. Gender Discrimination
As there is a 10:4 ratio of boys and girls respectively in primary schools.
For the last few years there has been an increase in the growth of
private schools.
That not only harms the quality of education but creates a gap among
haves and has not.
13. Funds
The allocation of funds for education is very low. It is only 1.5 to 2.0 percent
of the total GDP.
It should be around 7% of the total GDP.
14. Untrained Teachers
The teachers in government schools are not well trained.
People who do not get job in any other sector, they try their luck
in educational system.
They are not professionally trained teachers so they are unable
to train a nation.
15. Academic Problems
Resources regarding education are not enough in Pakistan
But the problem is that we are not taking benefits of available
resources
Resources are not being utilized properly due to presence of unskilled,
dishonest and less educated administration.
16. Poverty
Poverty is also another factor that restricts the parents
to send their children to public or private schools. So,
they prefer to send their children to madrassas where
education is totally free.
17. Solutions
Implementation instead of projecting policies should be focused on.
Allocation of funds should be made easy from provinces to districts and then
to educational institutes
Workshops must be arranged for teachers.
Promotion of the primary education is the need of time.
Technical education must be given to all the classes.
Teachers, professors and educationists should be consulted while devising
any plan, syllabus or policy.
The need of time is to bring education in its original form to masses.
Free Education Up to Matriculation
Provision of Free Textbooks
Teacher’s Status and Recruitment of Female Teachers
Improvement in Learning Environment
Technical / Vocational Education