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Default Essay : Education System of Pakistan (Kindly check)

AoA respected members...!
i am posting outline of "A critical analysis of education system in Pakistan" & introductory paragraph.Introductory para covers thesis or theme statement and overall points that i shall elaborate in body paragraphs.It's a request from senior members to please critically evaluate it.Tell me my mistakes & rectify them too.

A Critical Analysis of Education System in Pakistan


Outline

Introduction

Institution of Education (Viewing through Constitutional Prism)



a) Article 25A & 37b (post 18th amendment scenario) free & compulsory education for all children of age 5-16
b) UN Article 26(1) fundamental right of a human being
c) NEP 2009 (a brief reference)
d) Pakistan being signatory of MDG's (2000),Dakar Framework for Education for All & Convention on the Rights of Child


Present State of Affairs

a) Levels of Education,GER,NER etc
b)private & public sector school,2 different media,elite schools & seminaries
c) Monetary allocation by Government
d) Teaching as a profession in Pakistani society


Past policies (commentary on 1947 to date policies

a) post independence journey of education wise bankrupt nation to 57% literate( or semi literate ) people
b) Quaid's aspirations to Ayubian policies,Nationalization to privatization
c) Musharraf regime to current Government


What has gone wrong? (ailments)

a) Outdated Curricula & dual medium of imparting knowledge
b) Teachers (training & method of teaching),ghost schools
c) Infrastructure & issue of quality vs quantity
d) Girl child education (curse,conservatism,craving for something better)
e) Higher education (universities being centers of excellence or centers of anything but excellence)
f) Lack of Vision (what Pakistan needs as agrarian economy & developing nation & what it does not need to prevent growing extremism & violence in society


How to stem the rot & plant a bright future (Cures)

a) Government's role(federal/provincial)
b) Awareness campaign through Media & Role of SCO's


Conclusion










Introduction

Twenty first century Pakistan is fraught with numerous serious issues that are eating away the very fabric of her polity or eroding prospects of her respectable existence among comity of nations.If one starts tracing down the most potent reason of this degeneration of Pakistani society ,one ends at non-performing-nay- negatively performing Education sector.Education system of Pakistan has become a white elephant that is largely producing pathetic parrots & indifferent elites because the system has been wronged by the absence of vision,unavailability of resources,un(under)trained or uninterested teaching staff,old curricula & teaching paradigm,different mediums of educating & mindless policy making or criminal negligence by ruling elites.New era of technical advancement & knowledge economies is not all about hard power to rule or sway the word.This era rather demands soft power that mainly originates from culture,values & supremacy of a state in educational field.It maintains or nurtures national integration,helps citizenry to explore socio-economic success individually or collectively & have bearing on Human development in all spheres of life.
The crossroads of history where Pakistan stands today is not result of political mismanagement only.The situation is also the direct outcome of erstwhile or present ruling elites' criminal apathy towards educational profile of citizenry.Nonetheless,Constitution of Pakistan guarantees right of quality education.First,non-justiciable right by incorporation of Article 37-b in constitution to justiciable right by 18th amendment's Article 25-A,importance of institution of education has been acknowledged by State.Now Pakistani State is bound to provide free and compulsory education to all children of 5-16 years age.However,looking at ground realities like adult literacy rate 54.9% or allocation of less than 2% of GDP,disillusionment sets in.After independence Pakistan inherited colonial system of education,only one university(Punjab University) & education-wise barren population.Sixty six years down situation has been improved ostensibly albeit far from satisfactory.Low literacy level of society has been directly or indirectly pushing nation into abyss of poverty & extremism.Imposing education emergency on papers to practical steps like minimum 4% of GDP spending to implementation of Article 25A in letter & spirit,revision of syllabus & teaching method,teachers' training on modern lines,plugging lacunae in provision of quality education are needed to reorient standing of Pakistan & it's people among other nations.
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