Education Emergency Pakistan

Many believe that Pakistan’s education emergency is due to lack of demand from ordinary people.

The authors state that Pakistan is far from meeting its international education obligations and that the education emergency is a threat to Pakistan’s survival. Conclusions include:

• Parents’ willingness to pay for education demonstrates that they strongly want education for their children;
• Parents believe that quality teaching makes a greater difference to their children’s education than new school buildings;
• Pakistan needs to spend more on education, and also get greater value from existing public investment;
• High salaries for public school teachers has not improved quality of education in the country;
• Some conclude that Pakistan can never overcome its education challenges because past reform efforts have failed to deliver results;
• Measurable improvements to education can be delivered in two years with the right policies.