Education a top most priority
The delivery of education services in Pakistan is severely impacted by economic, political and security challenges that the country has been facing for some years.
The 18th Amendment to the Constitution of Pakistan, approved in 2010, devolved responsibility for education delivery and spending to provincial governments. The federal ministry retains some limited mandates, mainly in curriculum development, accreditation and the financing of research and development.
Balochistan faces many challenges in the education sector including a large number of out-of-school children, high dropout rates, wide gender disparities in education indicators and poor quality of teaching and learning in the classroom.
In 2015/2016, Balochistan allocated 20% of its total budget to education
- Improving access and equity for all girls and boys to school by:
- Building and upgrading schools in communities where there is little or no access to school.
- Improving transition rates between levels (early childhood education to primary, primary to middle, middle to high).
- Reducing dropout by improving learning outcomes.
- Expanding alternate forms of delivery including private sector management, community school development, among others.
- Improving the quality of education by:
- Developing the capacity of education managers and professionals including teachers, examiners, curriculum and textbook developers.
- Developing learning standards and benchmarks.
- Improving assessment capacity.
- Preparing a new school language policy conducive to learning.
Governance and management improvements are central to the BESP, which focuses on improving managerial capacity for management and supervision, and improving information collection mechanisms and their use.
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