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The expenditure on education is around 2% of Pakistan's GDP. However, in 2009 the government approved the new national education policy, which stipulates that education expenditure will be increased to 7% of GDP, an idea that was first suggested by the Punjab government.
National Education Foundation was founded in late 1994 and became operational in 1996. In 1997 Federal Teacher Foundation (FTF) was also merged with it. It was restructured as corporate in 2002. It has mandate to promote basic education through Public Private Partnership in FATA, Gilgit-Baltistan, AJK & Islamabad Capital Territory.
In 1979, President Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq's policies announced "The National Education Policy, 1979" (NEP-79) which saw the harmonization of higher education in Pakistan with Islamic concepts and the national ideology. President Zia's policies led to the fundamentalist ideas flaring in the higher education system in the country.
Despite 220,000 schools nationwide in Pakistan, more than 20 million children are not in school, the government said in a 2016 report.
Issues in education policy also address problems within higher education. The Pell Institute analyzes the barriers experienced by teachers and students within community colleges and universities. These issues involve undocumented students, sex education, and federal-grant aides. Education policy analysis is the scholarly study of education policy.
Right to Education Pakistan, also known as RTE Pakistan or simply RTE, is an advocacy campaign for equal education rights for all children in Pakistan. The RTE campaign stems from low enrollment levels in Pakistani schools, and low literacy levels (especially among Pakistani females ) depicted by the Annual Status of Education Report (ASER). [2]
The National Education Assessment System (NEAS), ( Urdu: قومی ماموریہَ برائے نظامِ تشخیصِ تعلیم) was an initiative of the Government of Pakistan aimed at identifying gaps, challenges, and diagnosing the strengths and weaknesses of the education system by measuring students' learning achievements. It sought to ...
The 1962 East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) Education movement was a movement by students against the education policy recommended by Sharif Commission, official name Commission on National Education, [1] to President of Pakistan, Ayub Khan. The policy would have made English and Urdu mandatory subjects. [2] It would have privatized education and ...