Public vs Private Quality Education at Primary Level in Pakistan

Resource type
Journal Article
Authors/contributors
Title
Public vs Private Quality Education at Primary Level in Pakistan
Abstract
Pakistan is an ethnically and religiously diverse country of over 190 million people. There are 22.6 million boys and girls out of school that's nearly half (44%) of all children in the country. This study was designed to assess comparative quality measures of primary level education at both public and private institutions of Pakistan. This study based on secondary data specially focused on ASER Pakistan Survey Report 2015 that was conducted in 146 rural districts of Pakistan, covering 83,755 households in 4,217 villages throughout the country. Detailed information was collected on 258,021 children (59% males, 41% females) aged 3-16 years. Out of these 219,609 children aged 5-16 years were tested for language and arithmetic competencies. It was found that Public schools lacking with trained teaching staff, well equipped classrooms and good policy and administration. While the other hand private schools deficient of well-educated staff, good infrastructure and self-motivation. It was recommended that the Government needs to realize this situation and to equalize the standards of public and private sector to achieve vigorous quality education at this level.
Publication
International Online Journal of Primary Education
Volume
6
Issue
2
Pages
1-23
Date
2017/00/00
Language
en
ISSN
1300-915X
Accessed
01/12/2020, 16:36
Library Catalogue
ERIC
Extra
Publisher: International Online Journal of Primary Education
Citation
Farooq, M. S., Feroze, N., & Kai, Y. T. (2017). Public vs Private Quality Education at Primary Level in Pakistan. International Online Journal of Primary Education, 6(2), 1–23. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ1243624