Education System in Pakistan

Q:Critically examine the current education system of Pakistan?

Ans:Unfortunately,Pakisatn has not been able to make much progress in the field of Education during the last fifty years.At present (2001)its literacy rate is 30 percent  as compared to china's 82 per cent.India's  52 per cent,Iran's 72 per cent,Iraq's 58 per cent,Sri lanka's 90 percent,Turkey's 82per cent,Malaysia's 84 per cent,and Kazkhstan's 98percent.This poor literacy rate is due to low percentage of budget spending on the  education and the tremendous  rate  of population explosion since 1947.It would be interesting to note that currently Pakistanis spending only 2.7 per cent of its budget on the education sector.This ratio is far less than the 4 per cent of GNP suggested by the UNESCO for the developing nations.The developed countries arespending from 6 to 10 per cent of their GNP on the education sector.The population explosion  is anther factor leading to low rate of literacy.The Population of areas comprising Pakistan was 16.57 million in 1998.According to these figures the population of Pakistan doubled in the fifty-year period from 1901 to 1951 but after that in the next 50 years from 1951 to 1998 this population quadrupled. 

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