Mapping education in Pakistan 2015
This map is a unique tool that gives an overview of situation of education in each district which allows the user to...
This map is a unique tool that gives an overview of situation of education in each district allowing the user to pinpoint the key reasons behind their district’s performance.
It intends to serve as a bridge between politicians and the user, allowing you to send a letter to your elected political representatives about education issues in your district.
The themes of the letters hosted on the map change regularly making it possible for you to take up a range of issues with your elected representatives.
Currently the map allows you to send a letter to the Finance Minister Ishaq Dar but August onwards it will enable you to connect directly to your local MNA and MPA as well.
Data sources:
- Alif Ailaan Pakistan District Education Rankings 2015
- Annual Status of Education Report 2014
- Pakistan Bureau of Statistics, PSLMS 2012-13
- Academy of Educational Planning and Management, National Education Management Information System 2013-14
This map is powered by Alif Ailaan
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May 21, 2015 02:46pm
Doesn't work
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May 21, 2015 02:48pm
North Punjab have the highest score in the whole map. But interestingly KP have one of the lowest but still many PTI folks boasts about the so called revolution there.
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May 21, 2015 02:50pm
Brilliant!
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May 21, 2015 02:51pm
State of the art GIS maps. Good tool for spatial analysis and planning purposes.
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May 21, 2015 02:55pm
Great initiative. Also check out what The Citizens Foundation is doing in Pakistan...1200 schools ! But we need to lobby government to focus on this defining and important aspect of our country.
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May 21, 2015 02:56pm
Hi Dawn, please format this page correctly: we can't see the stats for the more southern districts because the popup overflows into the margins. Thanks. You're doing a great job!
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May 21, 2015 02:57pm
Great effort on collection and representation of data. However I doubt these ministers even see these emails or will ever base their decisions on these statistics, great for awareness though.
I belong to Azad Kashmir and I know that Pakistan does not spend as much in AJK as it does in Pakistan. Whatever comes in, most of it gets into corrupt politician's pockets.
Note developer: Increase height of iFrame to make popups visible.
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May 21, 2015 03:03pm
Respected Sir
This is the only district of Pakistan which would be most backward due to the sectarianism, poverty and flood. In 1909 a bridge on river chenab was built for railway and recently (couple of years ago) luckily people have got a new bridge known as Shah Jewana Bridge for general public transport. before this situation was worst. Now a days the area between two rivers, Chenab and Jhelum is totally being destroyed due to the silting of Trimmu Barrage, the water is creating the flood situation on river banks. There is no technical college starting from Bund of Jhang in North and till the Bhaun Sugar Mills. There is no vocational/women degree college in this whole area. In general starting from jhang and reaching sargodha using Jhang sargodha road, there is no Medical or Technical institute for youth.
Thanks
Asim
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May 21, 2015 03:17pm
Brilliant idea to encourage transparency in education policy. I sincerely hope that different public's will engage in this dialogue and help transform the conversation.
Simply put, "put your money, where your mouth is".
If Pakistan were to spend more money of education ( 4% of GDP) and less less on military (NATO average is 2% of GDP) - future would be more peaceful and prosperous.
Keep it up.
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May 21, 2015 04:04pm
very good effort. one suggestion: please add ranking numbers on the map so that user can see all the district ranks in one go
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May 21, 2015 04:10pm
@Awan PTI comes in power two years ago so you blame PTI for mess of last 70 years? And would you comment on south Punjab or even outside Lahore?
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May 21, 2015 04:28pm
Seems like it is about the government schools as the Karachi numbers suggests. The problem lies here. In Karachi and many urban areas, the education system is all privatized, where the government lacks, and space is created, private primary, secondary and high school has taken its place.
So this data is useless to a large segment of population in urban areas. The city school system, the Beaconhouse school system alone caters to around 8 lacs students all over Pakistan.
The citizen foundation is doing a great job with 1200 schools for the less privileged children, more than 140,000 students in the system.
With so many parallel systems, including government, private, elite schools, madrassah system, this is becoming very complex, A uniform system is ideal. Government schools needs more funds, education budget should be at least 4% of GDP...should be increased substantially with every passing year.
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May 21, 2015 04:33pm
The data is for schools run by the provincial government and does not include the private sector school. With ref to the performance of Karachi and Sindh it reflects the performance of our Provincial Government who are depriving the lower class of quality education as most of them go to these institutions.
Credit must be given to Khadim e Ala Punjab as the result indicates he is doing a good job. Well done and keep it up.
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May 21, 2015 04:34pm
Please spare us and spend more of education .
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May 21, 2015 04:39pm
Dear Alif Ailaan,
The Kashmir on the map is not "Occupied Kashmir". It is "Azad Kashmir". Please correct this mistake in your interactive map.
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May 21, 2015 05:00pm
Fantastic attempt to drive change, well done to whoever came up with the idea, and especially those who put the hard work in to make it happen.
We can achieve change, we simply need guidance as to how to do it.
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May 21, 2015 05:25pm
@Awan - Do you expect PTI to right all wrongs of 60 years in just 2 years. Very naive of you. Punjab had a better literacy rate in British era as well. Please check out the education level in southern Punjab, you would know the reality. According to Alif Ailaan the only province where education levels are fast improving is KP whereas it has declined in Punjab.
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May 21, 2015 05:34pm
Most effective way (in my view) to make a difference - each Pakistani expatriate should click the map tab, identify her/his district, set up an organization by the same name on the social media, reach out to others, around the globe, who belong to the same district, pool resources, and set up a framework at your district to start building and improving the education system in the place of your forefathers. Yes, that is exactly what I have decided to do, today.
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May 21, 2015 05:39pm
Availability of water:2%
Availability of toilet:12%
Availability of electricity:20%
Availability of boundary wall:32%
Karachi is supposedly a urban area I believe?
Dawn, this initiative is Best of World class. Cheers. But the very motive is to educate more and more under-privileged. Kindly help the initiative friends..
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May 21, 2015 06:38pm
The so called remote area GB s education score is just amazing!
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May 21, 2015 07:01pm
WONDERFUL DAWN.
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May 21, 2015 07:08pm
People like you will make the difference All the best.
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May 21, 2015 07:16pm
Excellent job Dawn and Alif Ailaan! Many many thanks!
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May 21, 2015 07:16pm
Dawn never accepted the notion that 3rd word needs only 3rd class news papers. You are brilliant. Such kind of information are helping us think and understand our country, people, problems and opportunities. Thanks for great effort.
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May 21, 2015 07:29pm
Wow! Haripur District shows the best score in KPK and among the top 5 in country alongside Rawalpindi, Islamabad and Lahore. Way to Go my hometown Haripur :)
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May 21, 2015 07:36pm
Waste of time and energy.
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May 21, 2015 07:40pm
Why the Finance minister why not the Education Minister if we have an educated, Education Minister.
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May 21, 2015 07:52pm
Excellent tool for analysis. Primary school enrollment is high but drops drastically at high school level. Need to figure out how to reduce dropout rate.
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May 21, 2015 08:37pm
It is a nice effort and deserved to be acknowledged and appreciated. It is very necessary for us to improve education standard standards in Pakistan. Education is one of prominent tool which could put Pakistan on way of development, prosperity and peace.
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May 21, 2015 08:49pm
Do you think politician or MNA will reply your letter. No way. He will never. You go and see condition of Schools and Hospitals. You will see stray dogs everywhere, donkeys and goats etc. schools are also in terrible state. Mostly Doctors of Govet Hospitals do private practice in working hours.
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May 21, 2015 09:01pm
@Awan : You want PTI to change education score within 2 years? Do you think they have a jenny in the bottle? Not to forget the security situations in that province
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May 21, 2015 09:06pm
@Abuzar map is correct. It's occupied Kashmir. the districts of Azad kashmir are shown separately.
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May 21, 2015 09:17pm
My bad. I see AJK cities are shown individually.
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May 21, 2015 09:36pm
@Awan, What an irrational childish statement. This gentleman is talking as if PTI has been ruling the province since 1947.
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May 21, 2015 09:37pm
I am happy to see some one took time to spell out this much needed research for public to read and take notice. There are so many rural areas of SW Punjab such as Bhakkar district there are schools but no appropriate staffing, these schools were established some 30 years ago but no improvement has ever been done. these are Govt. funded schools need up grading and properly improved with staffing and funds.
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May 21, 2015 10:29pm
Top five are
1. Rawalpindi
2. Chakwal
3. Lahore
4.Haripur
5.Islamabad
and 7 Attock
Seems like area around Rawalpindi and Islamabad are more focused on Education.
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May 21, 2015 10:51pm
@Awan May be it's because KPK has been the most affected province by every natural disaster that hit us, be it 2005 earthquake or floods. A lot of infrastructure had been destroyed and not to forget KPK was said to be the most corrupt province out of all during ANP government. But today, they are, if not on top, at least on second in education. It shows that the government is heading in the right direction.
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May 21, 2015 10:58pm
@Awan May be it's because KPK has been the most affected province by the natural disasters. 2005 earth quake and then floods. A lot of infrastructure had been destroyed, and not to forget that KPK was said to be the most corrupt province out of all during ANP's government. But today they are, if not on top, on the second position in education. This shows that the government is heading in the right direction.
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May 21, 2015 11:03pm
Proud to see Rawalpindi at the top of the list! :)
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May 21, 2015 11:11pm
Pakistan should aim big and aim high in education. Educate every child of Pakistan to High School in 20 years. Every Child of Pakistan is precious. They must be respected and educated. Aim high, educate 50% of our young to College and University education in 20 Years.
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May 21, 2015 11:51pm
Alif Ailaan and Dawn, thank you for bring this to the public
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May 21, 2015 11:51pm
Good work its a very good map and I am sure this will be enhanced based on data available, If possible try adding some financial numbers showing totals, averages, expenditure per capita etc.
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May 21, 2015 11:53pm
Just click Shaheed Benazirabad and khairpur in Sindh, they are the districts of Mr Zardari and Mr Qaim Ali Shah. The districts have dismal state of affairs. Most of the grade five students cant speak/write an urdu or English sentence, do simple math or. Though the map shows that most schools have toilets I bet that most of these are not functional. Enrollment in high schools is only about 15%. I believe most of the people send their kids to private schools in these districts. I was doing my research with school children in 2008 when I found in official documents that 90% of kids went to private schools in Urban Hyderabad. They have deliberately ruined generations.
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May 21, 2015 11:58pm
@MohiniKutir;
" less less on military (NATO average is 2% of GDP) - future would be more peaceful and prosperous."
If we don't have the military our education would be Sanskrit.
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May 22, 2015 12:19am
People from deprived areas mostly in small towns and cities, who really need education they usually don't have access to Internet or even if they do they won't read an English newspaper... So no one here would represent those areas. It doesn't mean that government shouldn't spend in those areas if no one is representing them.
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May 22, 2015 01:25am
@Awan Sir azad kashmir and giglgit baltistan has the highest please check again.
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May 22, 2015 01:32am
@Awan
How can KP govt turn around education rate in two years? It takes a lot of convincing and change of attitude. South Punjab scores poorly though.
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May 22, 2015 02:00am
Excellent effort. Transparency and metric are key. All "leaders" stay away from measurable results and rely on lies and empty slogans. Karachi statistics seemed misleading since almost anyone from lower middle class up has children in privtae schools, that have musroomed over the last three decades. Poor public education is breaking the middle calss's back as they have to pay out of pocket for this basic right.
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May 22, 2015 02:11am
Well done DAWN. I love this as education coming to collective conscious of PAK. We Indians want you to succeed in all sphere of development and wish such efforts by media houses like DAWN will provide a platform for Pakistani's to rally around education.
Wishing best to Pakistan...since wishing best to Pakistan also means wishing best to India.
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May 22, 2015 03:32am
The most highly educated parts of the country are in Gilgit-Balitstan, largely thanks to the Agha Khan. we should approach him for guidance, because clearly he is more competent than any Pakistani politician.
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May 22, 2015 03:32am
@Awan its because Punjab eats up 70% of the country budget and the your Godfathers spend it on upper Punjab. Keepig the Sariakis illiterate and under feudalism. KP govt. is doing a great job with the available resources.
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May 22, 2015 03:54am
a good initiative ...but that will be very good if you provide info about the locations of schools we will know either schools in our areas are in working conditions are not...because as i know my district there are a no. of schools which are closed from years..
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May 22, 2015 04:20am
@Muhammad Saad Ahmed
There were more new universities established in KPK during the last ANP 5-years government than since 1947. This is a fact, check it out.
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May 22, 2015 05:33am
@Mustafa ......... So what???
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May 22, 2015 06:16am
@Seriously It Does working.
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May 22, 2015 06:20am
Letter from F.R Kohat, Teachers in the School come in with their children and get the primary school girls to baby sit, not for so that they can teach but to chat, visit/attend weddings, sending girls to home to collect free range eggs etc
Its not just the funding but the quality of education is poor, very poor.
Excellent initiative, well done. Thank you.
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May 22, 2015 07:17am
@Patriotic Indian We wish the best for India too. Hope there is better education in India and poverty rate goes down as well. Best Wishes!
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May 22, 2015 10:37am
@Ali it has been done.
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May 22, 2015 10:55am
Dear Alif Ailaan,
Could you please elaborate, How education score is calculated?
Regards,
Nazar
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May 22, 2015 11:23am
In fact Punjab is leading in the standard of quality education followed by Khyberpukhtunkhwa ,sindh and Balochistan but if we look to the ground realities and comparatively analyse with our neighbor states,we are far behind ,last year budget for education was just 2.5 % but we would request the federal Govt to increase it up to at least 5 % that our coming generations may face the new challenges with open eyes,,,
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May 22, 2015 11:42am
Good innovation. Good luck for progress in education
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May 22, 2015 12:01pm
I really appreciate the efforts and great tool has been design, alarming situation of education system, poor performance by students in classes.
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May 22, 2015 12:53pm
I hope this will work :)
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