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14 April 2023

High-stakes Accountability for Public Sector Education Management: a Process Trace from the Punjab

Rabea Malik and Faisal Bari

For most countries, certainly Pakistan, the state remains the largest and most significant provider of services. Implementation of service

3 February 2023

Education Pain Points in Balochistan: Insights from the RISE Diagnostic Framework

Saira A. Qureshi, Abdus Sami Khan, Rafiullah Kakar, Barkat Shah Kakar, and Muhammad Saleem

Balochistan covers about 44% of Pakistan’s territory and houses about 6% of its population. Huge distances and low population density provide a unique...

13 May 2022

Is Classroom Technology a Panacea to Save Struggling School Systems?

Sabrin Beg

Despite primary education being established as one of the 8-millennium development goals at the turn of the century, challenges still persist on the question of access...

23 February 2022

Pakistani Government Schools: A Reflection 40 Years On

Shad Moarif

There is little research in the Pakistani context on the impact of teacher background on student learning outcomes in government schools. The diversity of teachers across the country...

15 October 2021

The Road to ‘Good’ Teaching in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Public Schools

Between 2010 and 2018, there appeared to be some very exciting and frenetic reform efforts unfolding across the school education sector in the Punjab. Moving the needle on school access and learning outcomes, it seemed, was as aspiration closest to the hearts...

1 October 2021

Delayed enrollment and out-of-school adolescents – the missing link

Huma Zia Faran

In Pakistan, 26% of children in the 5-16 age cohort have never been to a school. This translates into 16 million children (out of a total of 20 million children who are out of school) as reported in The Missing Third...

1 October 2021

From Ivory Towers To Building Blocks

Shad Moarif

Today, we see bright, knowledgeable folks of all ages, male and female, who know and understand education far better than those with decision-making powers. Almost all come from a segment of society that has benefitted from...

17 September 2021

Using Cash Transfer Programs to Get Children Back to School from Work

Nasir Iqbal

The prevalence of child labour in Pakistan is very high: up to 22% of children between the ages of 5 and 14 years are engaged in the worst form of child labour, including bonded labour in agriculture and brick kilns...

3 September 2021

What about these Covid-19 learning losses?

Soufia A. Siddiqi, Momina Idrees, Musharfa Shah

As educational institutions across Pakistan slowly reopen for a new academic year, an underlying anxiety is taking root: by how much has the learning of Pakistani students been set back? If lessons from recent scholarship are anything to go by, our youngest children...

23 July 2021

Exploring ‘Spaces’ of Learning: Girls’ Education during COVID in Pakistan

Aliya Khalid, Musharfa Shah

Any continuous area or expanse which is available for consumption is typically referred to as ‘space’. In the Urdu language, this can translate to ‘khalaa’ understood as the ‘absence’ of forms, but at the same time generative of other or newer forms, much like silence in a musical composition...

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