Pak education official gets UNESCO prize
New Delhi, Sep 8 (PTI) Allah Bakhsh Malik, a Pakistani education official, today received the International Confucius Prize of UNESCO from the President Pratibha Patil at a function here to mark the Literacy Day.
"Malik, who is Secretary, Punjab Literacy and Basic Education Department, has been conferred with the award in recognition of his meritorious services in the field of education and literacy and is the first Pakistani recipient of the coveted award," a Pakistan High Commission release said.
He has successfully employed an innovative model of educating children and adults through functional literacy in Pakistan''s Punjab region, it said.
"He has introduced foundation assisted schools for affordable quality education in public-private partnership, which have been replicated in many other countries. One of his innovative ideas was the introduction of the Educational Voucher Scheme in the urban slums of the Punjab province," it said.
Malik holds a PhD in development economics and belongs to the 1985 batch of the Civil Service of Pakistan. The award was instituted by UNESCO in 2005 for recognition of outstanding innovative contributions in the field of education and literacy.
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