Main constraints facing girls education issues

[Mehria]

A.O.A
we have a seminar on 6th November 2010.
The forum will discuss the main constraints facing girls education issues,including access,retention and quality and define a frame work for inputs in the policy.
This will help to generate stakeholder dialogue on a wider scale if local issues are collected and communicated effectively to the policy planners.
Please post your valuable discussions under the following:
-Issues
-policy actions
-Recommendations


Regards

Its urgent

[Sociologist PU]

One of the major hurdle/constraint in this regard is the inadequate transport facilities for the girls students. The parents are always concerned about the location of the college/school and how their daughters will commute from home to college and back. The gov. should devise a way to overcome this situation by providing them an effecient transport system in large cities by introducing ladies only buses/wagons during college hours.

[ayesha iftikhar]

here are many economic, social, administrative and cultural issues faced by the girls

Economic

* Poverty, unemployment and the cost of education. When resources are limited families choose to invest in their sons.
* Child labor within families, particular the use of daughters to assist with domestic chores and child minding.
* Families reluctant to invest in education as it does not seem to guarantee future work or a more high paying job in man rural areas.

Social

* The practice of early marriage.
* cultural attitudes towards female education as female can't challenge her father and husband.
* Distance of schools from home and restricted mobility of girls.
* Families reluctant to encourage girls to leave home for further education or more skilled work.
* Education and work not seen as priorities for girls, in contrast to marriage and motherhood.
* Religious groups which mobilize followers against schools on the basis of the lack of segregation between boys and girls; the lack of female teachers; and the presumed moral dangers of educating girls.

Administrative

* No education budget as the Annual Development Program for Education at the provincial level has been frozen for the past seven years.
* Education is not seen as a priority by the government, resulting in no facilities, few schools and high teacher:student ratios. In this context, many parents see school fees paid for daughters as a waste of money.
* Low quality of teachers, teaching resources and facilities, compounded by high levels of teacher absenteeism.
* Lack of female teachers is due to isolation, lack of transportation and low salary. These also result in high levels of absenteeism among female teachers.
* New schools must be built on land provided by the community free of charge. This results in schools being built some distance away from villages thus increasing the risks for female teachers and students.

[ayesha iftikhar]

There are five main challenges we identify that make it difficult for girls to access education.
These include:

• the cost of education – ensuring that communities, parents and children can afford schooling;

• poor school environments – ensuring that girls have access to a safe school environment;

• the weak position of women in society – ensuring that society and parents value the education
of girls;

• conflict – ensuring that children who are excluded due to conflict have access to schooling; and

• social exclusion – ensuring girls are not disadvantaged on the basis of caste, ethnicity, religion
or disability.


for further help u can study
THE FUTURE OF GIRLS’ EDUCATION IN PAKISTAN
(A Study on Policy Measures and Other Factors Determining Girls’ Education)
by Dr. Humala Shaheen Khalid & Dr. Eshya Mujahid-Mukhtar