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Pakistan shows modest improvement in standard of education, says report

Alif Ailaan assesses educational outcomes and school infrastructure by comparing the performance of different regions.
Dawn.com Published May 7, 2015
A schoolgirl, who was displaced with her family from Pakistan's tribal areas due to fighting between militants and the army, puts down her shoe before entering her classroom, in a poor neighborhood on the outskirts of Islamabad.
A schoolgirl, who was displaced with her family from Pakistan's tribal areas due to fighting between militants and the army, puts down her shoe before entering her classroom, in a poor neighborhood on the outskirts of Islamabad.

The Alif Ailaan District Education Rankings 2015 is the third annual attempt at comparing and contrasting the various regions of Pakistan based on their standards of education.

Alif Ailaan and SDPI began this exercise in 2013. The attempt is to assess both educational outcomes and school infrastructure by comparing the relative performance of different regions.

Pakistani schoolgirls, who were displaced with their families from tribal areas due to fighting between militants and the army, listen to their teacher in a poor neighborhood on the outskirts of Islamabad.
Pakistani schoolgirls, who were displaced with their families from tribal areas due to fighting between militants and the army, listen to their teacher in a poor neighborhood on the outskirts of Islamabad.

Objectives of the rankings

The objectives of the rankings are:

  • To produce a comprehensive measure of education standards in Pakistan, covering important policy areas such as access, quality, gender parity and infrastructure.

  • To use this measure as the basis for a comparison of different parts of the country to track their performance, and thereby to encourage healthy competition between districts and between provinces.

  • To create awareness about the importance of data and evidence in assessing the state of education, and to promote the use of data in the development of education policy.

  • To encourage more accurate and comprehensive data collection by government and non- government entities.

Orphaned children react while watching an early screening of the first episode of the animates Burka Avenger series, at an orphanage on the outskirts of Islamabad.
Orphaned children react while watching an early screening of the first episode of the animates Burka Avenger series, at an orphanage on the outskirts of Islamabad.

Provincial and National Education Scores (Primary School)

2015

  • Overall Pakistan’s education score remained steady (an increase of 1.67%). This is the second consecutive year of modest improvement.

  • The biggest decline seen in the scores was in learning score, while improvements were seen in retention (survival till class 5) and gender parity.

  • Islamabad is the highest ranked territory for the third year running.

  • In 2nd and 3rd place are Azad Jammu & Kashmir and Punjab, respectively. This represents a reversal from last year when Punjab ranked 2nd. Punjab’s score declined by 3.38%, while AJK’s stayed static.

  • Gilgit-Baltistan holds steady at 4th position while its education score increased by 1.69%.

  • Sindh and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) exchange positions for the second year in a row, with KP reclaiming 5th spot which it had lost last year. KP shows an improvement of 13.15% in its education score (second largest improvement), while Sindh dropped by 1.02%.

  • Balochistan and the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) round up the bottom of the rankings. This, despite a drop in -
    Balochistan’s score (3.67%) and a large increase in FATA’s score (15.12%).

Pakistani schoolgirls, who were displaced with their families from tribal areas due to fighting between militants and the army, listen to their teacher in a poor neighborhood on the outskirts of Islamabad. -AP
Pakistani schoolgirls, who were displaced with their families from tribal areas due to fighting between militants and the army, listen to their teacher in a poor neighborhood on the outskirts of Islamabad. -AP

Education Score

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Owais Mangal
May 07, 2015 09:14pm
Alarming as it is. I am assuming that this data is regarding government school. Do you expect the improved ranking when private schools are added to this database?
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Awais Ali
May 07, 2015 10:01pm
KPK improved 13.15% in Eduction literacy in last 1 year while Punjab declined 3.35 and Sindh declined 1.02% in literacy. Its just beginning Just imagine after 5 years where will ne KPK in eduction? And Punjab will only have useless Metros. Credit is due to IK for 13.15% improvement in Education in just 1 year. This is vision of education IK always talked.
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Asif
May 07, 2015 10:03pm
What about Abbottabad district?
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Ghaznavi
May 07, 2015 10:20pm
Good Job Kashmir.
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roarwali
May 07, 2015 10:35pm
Alif Alaan should work on simple measures which reflect performance or should be descriptors of performance. Most of them here are nothing but a bundle of figures and at the end, one get more confused. Every evaluation and assessment process starts with fundamental objectives and measures should tell how much or to what degree those objectives are met.
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javed Hasrat
May 07, 2015 10:37pm
GB on the TOP in every aspects despite of deprived from constitutional as well as from basics rights.
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adeeb
May 07, 2015 10:41pm
@Awais Ali here comes another PTI enthusiast troll
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Sunil
May 07, 2015 10:48pm
Was the survey performed in FATA and Wazirstan area, where mostly Taliban rule?
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Bhagwan Das
May 07, 2015 11:13pm
Nice Survey. I believe Pakistani people have stamina to show their talents all over the world, Hope for best for Sindh, Baluchistan
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just_someone
May 07, 2015 11:28pm
Excellent effort to collect data on school performance. Thank you for those who went through this Herculean task! Democracy has lead people to take ownership and demand changes. Although we dont all like the current politicians, these efforts will lead to better people in power over the years.
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zahid
May 07, 2015 11:31pm
good research piece
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Awais Ali
May 07, 2015 11:51pm
@adeeb If i am wrong then tell me. Read the report thoroughly. It says KPK improved 13.15% in 1 year 2nd highest ever while all other declined. After this report you seems like more troll of PML-N instead of praising performance of PTI in education department.
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Wisdom
May 07, 2015 11:55pm
@adeeb You are right. Let me suggest a correction in @awais's comment: KPK performance is the worst as education score improved only 13.15% there and the Punjab did the greatest job because education score declined mere 3.35% here. Sorry I can't change the numbers itself. Happy now?
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Sonny Afridi
May 08, 2015 12:52am
@adeeb Truth hurts
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Sonny Afridi
May 08, 2015 12:53am
@Sunil Waziristan (North and South) are part of FATA (agencies). And yes, they were.
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Turth Seeker
May 08, 2015 01:41am
AJK well done! Keep it up my homeland!
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Safwan
May 08, 2015 02:21am
@Sunil Taliban USED to rule those areas.
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W G Sheikh
May 08, 2015 02:40am
Watch out and be careful of the base when comparing percentages; KPK results are encouraging (keep it up; this is the nature of competition that health societies indulge in) ; but the starting point is quite low; due to Punjab's size and continued progress over the years, the base is quite large; moving from 1 to 2 is 100%; moving from 100 to 110 is just 10%. Still, Punjab is not off the hook!
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Imran
May 08, 2015 05:24am
@adeeb Quoted from them same report: "Punjab’s score declined by 3.38%, while AJK’s stayed static. KP shows an improvement of 13.15% in its education score (second largest improvement), while Sindh dropped by 1.02%."
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Zakaullah Gandapur
May 08, 2015 05:29am
This is good for all of us, as we are one nation-Pakistani, nothing more than that. We should appreciate all province's efforts to eduacte people. Alhamdolilah.. now we are going towards improvement in every field of life. Pakistan, now, is going on at right direction. We should consider ourself what as one-nation.
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ahmad
May 08, 2015 07:42am
well I do not agree with these figures, in KPK karak, charsadda and abbotabad are way ahead in education and yet no mention of these three.
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fahim
May 08, 2015 08:35am
honestly speaking some political personalities ( everyone know his name) working good for education. but this are not be restrict to only one province. we hope of "Educational emergency" so that we also stand in the row of super countries!! last I will say to choose those political persons who is really true to education and practically doing work for it.
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amir
May 08, 2015 08:39am
No thanx to the government(s) and especially that PM of the 70's who brought about this downslide! Constructive education in Pakistan remains in the hands of enlightened and determined individuals as well as NGO's............. !
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Zeeshan
May 08, 2015 08:47am
@Awais Ali This is not literacy rate.
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Janat
May 08, 2015 09:34am
@Sunil Yes waziristan is in fata. and you can check there is a large increase in FATA’s score (15.12%). PS let me correct you taliban dont rule fata. army does. you would have heard about 3 succesful operations to root out talibans. now they run back to their homeland afghanistan. situation is much better there. alhamdullilah
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AYK
May 08, 2015 11:18am
Wow!!!! Much to my delight...... dark green color 80+ for my district Abbottabad (City of School n Colleges)....Feeling privileged/honored.....
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