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In Girls’ education and COVID-19 in Pakistan, Malala Fund and our Education Champions highlight the impact of school closures on students in all four provinces with an emphasis on girls’ experiences.

The present study was undertaken to highlight the gender disparities of Pakistan as well as at regional and international level. The study, measured the comparative outcome of formal and non-formal system of education in Pakistan. To achieve the desired goal, documentary analysis was considered appropriate. The number of schools and enrollment during the years 2001 to 2004 of the formal system for primary, middle and high level was considered and enrollment during the year 198-1999 and 2004...

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...

This article continues the analyses of the impact of an innovative teacher education programme aimed at school improvement in a developing country context (A. Khamis, P. Sammons, 2004. The development of a cadre of teacher educators: some lessons from Pakistan. International Journal of Educational Development, 24(3), 255–268). Building on recent publications that have analysed outcomes of the teacher education programme and how the cadre of teacher educators has worked to initiate...

In today's global society where innovations spread rapidly, the escalating focus on science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) has quickly intensified in the United States, East Asia and much of Western Europe. Our ever-changing, increasingly global society faces many multidisciplinary problems, and many of the solutions require the integration of multiple science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) concepts. Thus, there is a critical need to explore the integration...

Educational systems are progressively attempting to provide equitable, comprehensive, and high-quality digital skills education and training. Females lag substantially behind males in digital abilities, paving the need for more learning and skill development, especially in developing countries. Creating equal opportunity in higher education for all individuals including both genders is a social responsibility. Gender equality is a cornerstone of a healthy, modern economy, and women may make...

This paper seeks to identify the factors determining school enrollment in slum localities of Islamabad, Pakistan. A quantitative research design with the survey method was adopted to obtain data from household heads. The sample was consisted of 220 respondents. The data was collected with convenient sampling technique. A structured questionnaire was prepared as a tool for data collection. The data was analyzed with logistic regression model on STATA 0.9 software. The results disclosed that...

To get a better picture of the effects of the pandemic on education in Pakistan, we carried out another round of our survey of students and parents. We found gender differences in learning loss, little engagement with government teleschool, dropping parental support for further closures, and more.

Byzantine and ambiguous legal processes, unclear regulations, and ad hoc security requirements hinder the work of international NGOs in a country where distrust of foreign funded entities runs deep.

Download Free Full-Text of an article PRONUNCIATION BARRIERS AND COMPUTER ASSISTED LANGUAGE LEARNING (CALL): COPING THE DEMANDS OF 21<SUP>ST</SUP> CENTURY IN SECOND LANGUAGE LEARNING CLASSROOM IN PAKISTAN

Punjab Excise and Taxation Service Center. Photo: World Bank Technology is changing our world faster than ever before. And Pakistan, home to more than 64 million internet users and 62 million people connected to mobile data, is no exception. As they’ve become more digital-savvy, Pakistanis are now expecting better digital ...

October 2021 INTRODUCTION Pakistan does not have any extensive data protection legislation in place that specifically regulates matters in connection with the processing of personal data. The Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act, 2016 ('PECA') is currently the primary legislation that provides a legal framework in relation to various kinds of electronic crimes and also extends to the unauthorised access to personal data.

The study aims to explore the access of mobile phone, emerging technologies, and use of the mobile phone by the youth of Gilgit-Baltistan (GB), Pakistan, for learning and safety and security purposes. Structured questionnaires were used to collect the data. The descriptive statistics was employed to test the research model. Among the 300 distributed sample size, 272 participants responded back including 133 male and 139 female students of Karakoram International University (KIU) from eight...

The study aims to explore the access of mobile phone, emerging technologies, and use of the mobile phone by the youth of Gilgit-Baltistan (GB), Pakistan, for learning and safety and security purposes. Structured questionnaires were used to collect the data. The descriptive statistics was employed to test the research model. Among the 300 distributed sample size, 272 participants responded back including 133 male and 139 female students of Karakoram International University (KIU) from eight...

Much research and practice on gender and digital technologies focuses on the potential of ICTs to empower women positively.  However, ICTs also have negative impacts on women.  and this paper explores these negative implications in the context of mobile device use in Pakistan.  Whilst digital harassment is commonplace globally, Pakistan is interesting because of its strong normative values and the complexity of the intersection there between patriarchy, religion and culture. We examine the...

This blog was written by Rabea Malik, Assistant Professor at the School of Education, Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) and Research Fellow at the Institute of Development and Economic Alternatives (IDEAS) in Pakistan. This blog is part of a series from the REAL Centre reflecting on the impacts of the current COVID-19 pandemic on research work on international education and development.

Evolution of technology is a swift process, however, its acceptance and adoption in the society is slackened despite its promising results. Internet / mobile banking is a technological way of conducting banking transactions. The purpose of the current study is to find out the affect of various factors effecting successful adoption of internet   / mobile banking using TAM, technological acceptance model in Pakistan, especially rural areas of the country. Results of the current study obtained...