The Minister for Planning says knowledge economy plays an important role in the development of country A Conference of Education Ministers has been convened in Islamabad next week to evolve an understanding to introduce a uniform system of education and syllabus in the country.

ISLAMABAD, Jan 16 (APP): Federal Minister for Planning, Development and Reforms, Ahsan Iqbal Thursday said that the government’s top priority is to invest on human resources for the development of social sector and economic stability of the country. While addressing the “Fifth ASER Annual Status of Education Report 2013”, he said the skilled population and knowledge based soci...

ISLAMAAD: Though successive governments have always claimed that education was among their priorities, a report showed a dismal picture of the sector.

The report launched by ASER, a non-governmental organisation, stated that 21 per cent children between the age of five and 16 years were out of school and 79 per cent of the enrolled students were not learning much.

ISLAMABAD, (SANA): A Conference of Education Ministers has been convened next week to evolve an understanding to introduce a uniform system of education and syllabus in the country.

This was stated by Minister for Planning and Development Ahsan Iqbal while launching Annual Status of Education Report 2013 and talking to newsmen in Islamabad on Th...

ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Planning, Development and Reforms, Ahsan Iqbal Thursday said that the government's top priority is to invest on human resources for the development of social sector and economic stability of the country.

While addressing the "Fifth ASER Annual Status of Education Report 2013", he said the skilled population and knowledge based society would...

ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Planning, Development and Reforms, Ahsan Iqbal Thursday said that the government's top priority is to invest on human resources for the development of social sector and economic stability of the country.

While addressing the "Fifth ASER Annual Status of Education Report 2013", he said the skilled population and knowledge based society woul...

SLAMABAD - Despite recent focus of the federal and provincial governments on enrolment drives, 21 per cent of Pakistan's children aged 5-16 are still out of school. And the remaining 79 per cent that are enrolled in the 5-16 age bracket are not learning much either, says a household survey that measures basic learning levels. The survey reports 34 per cent children are out of school in B...

In rural areas 21% of children are out-of-school, compared to 8% in urban areas, while English only 43% of fifth graders surveyed could read English at a second-grade reading level.

The figures were revealed in the Annual Status of Education Report (ASER)-2013, launched at the Pak Secretariat on Thursday. The survey has been conducted in 138 rural districts and 1...

پاکستان میں غیر سرکاری تنظیموں کے گروپ کی جانب سے کیے جانے والے ایک نئے سروے کے مطابق پاکستانی بچوں کی اکثریت معیاری تعلیم سے محروم ہے۔

سروے میں کہا گیا ہے کہ پانچویں جماعت کے تقریباً 50 فیصد بچے دوسری جماع�...

تعلیمی میدان میں بہتری کے لئے ضروری ہے کہ نصاب کو قومی سطح کا ہونا چاہئے۔

ISLAMABAD – Despite recent focus of the federal and provincial governments on enrolment drives, 21 per cent of Pakistan’s children aged 5-16 are still out of school.

And the remaining 79 per cent that are enrolled in the 5-16 age bracket are not learning much either, says a household survey that measures basic le...

F.P. Report ISLAMABAD: Despite the recent focus of the federal and provincial governments on enrolment drives as a rhetoric on Article 25A, 21 percent of Pakistan's children between the ages of 5 and 16 still remain out of school, according to the Annual Status of Education Report -ASER 2013 National survey. The remaining 79% that are enrolled in the 5-16 age bracket are not learning much ...

ISLAMABAD - A regional seminar and policy discussion on Right to Education (RTE) in South Asia was held Friday with key objective of taking stock of the RTE status at the regional level in the context of Education for All (EFA) goals and Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

خدا کے لئے ڈاکٹر نواز شریف اور مقامی نیلسن منڈیلا آصف علی ذرداری ! اللہ کے بندو اپنا مستقبل تم نے کسے سونپ دیا ؟

Zubeida Mustafa THE new year has brought with it the report card on education in Pakistan that ASER (Annual Status of Education Report) has been issuing without fail since 2009. It is disappointing that the situation in the education sector remains as dismal as ever.

Last week, ASER again had bad news for the nation when it launched its annual report. The latter was based on test...

LAHORE: Learning levels of students across rural Pakistan are tumbling despite rhetoric and massive investment and interventions in school education system by respective provincial governments as almost 57 per cent Grade 5 students cannot read Grade 2 English sentences and cannot do two-digit division. More alarmingly almost half of such students have been found unable to read simple Class...

The findings of Annual Status of Education Report 2013, are not very encouraging, showing a continuously high trend of underachievement in Pakistan's school...

Despite the recent focus of the federal and provincial governments on enrolment drives, in compliance with Article 25-A of the Constitution, 21 per cent of Pakistan’s children aged between five and 16 years still remain out of school, according to the Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) 2013 national survey.