Education in Pakistan
A. Brief History About Pakistan Pakistan emerged as an Islamic Republic on August 14, 1947 This country has an area of about 796.095 Sq Kilometers . Pakistan
consists of four provinces : Punjab , North West Frontier Province ,
Balochistan and Sindh and some units of the union that covers Islamabad
Capital Territory ( ICT ) , Federally Administered Tribal Areas ( FATA )
and Northern Areas ( FANA ) .
Islamabad
is the capital of Pakistan , which is located in the northern part of
the country at the bottom of the Margalla Hills near Rawalpindi , is a
well-planned city , built in the early 1960s . The national language is Urdu .
Some regional languages are also spoken in various parts of the country . Media
education is Urdu but the English language continues to be used in
higher education and professional colleges , especially in scientific
and technical fields . English is used extensively for legal and other official business , commercial in this country . Approximately 97 percent of the Muslims .B. Demographic CharacteristicsAccording
to the Population Census 1998, the population of Pakistan is about 131
million is 88 million ( 67 % ) live in rural areas and 42 million live
in urban areas . The
composition of the population is such that approximately 68 million (
52 % ) were male and approximately 63 million ( 48 % ) were female . Monthly average growth during 1981-1998 was 2.6 % . The population is not evenly distributed among the provinces . Punjab
is the most populous province consists of about 56 percent of the total
population followed by Sindh ( 23 percent ) , NWFP ( 14 percent ) and
Balochistan is the largest province with 45 percent of the countries in
the region . Population density is 164 people per kilometer Sq . Housing Census of Pakistan 1998)C. Structure of PoliticsPakistan has a federal form of government with the province as the union of its units . It
is governed by the 1973 constitution has a parliament and senate at the
federal level and the provincial President of Pakistan is the head of
state and the Prime .
Minister is the chief executive . Political and civil administration in the province run by the Governor and the Chief Minister of each province .D. Administration SetupThe country is a federation of four provinces . Each province is divided into smaller manageable units called Districts. Overall, there are 105 districts ( Punjab 34 , Sindh 21 , NWFP 24 and Balochistan 26 ) . Each district is further divided into Tehsil or Talukas ( sub-district ) , so there are 402 Tehsils in Pakistan .E. New educational policy 2009 ( Quality and weaknesses )New
Education Policy 2009 highlights all the flaws and dilemmas of
education in Pakistan successfully but it does not define track of
implementation. NEP2009
decision to introduce a national education system need tremendous
workout , but despite completing one year there was no such action is
proposed to realize the public about the new system that will be given
to all .
Educational
policy the words used to tell the very good 2009 pictures positive
policy but how this will happen and when it will start and what will be
the first step of all is not well defined , and nothing has been done
even after one year .
A
very long document of national education policy seems like a text paper
showing the importance of education and the dilemmas of education and
its influence on the nations . Wonderful document describes all these topics is very limited and using words to new decisions and implementation processes .New Education Policy 2009 has been criticized by intellectuals .
Shahid
Siddiqui criticize this policy in hi article " New Education Policy "
in book 63 of Advance Contemporary Affairs by M Imtiaz Shahid . The first criticism is that this policy was announced prior to the expiration date of the previous policy .
Government defends this criticism by quoting that previous education policies can not provide the required results . Furthermore,
the authors statement condemning the government to declare the result
that education policy is also not desirable, and there are problems at
the implementation level . According to him introducing English as a compulsory subject is not new , it has been decided by the Musharraf regime .