Quality of Education in Government Schools in Pakistan
By: Hina Fatima
Tags: Amal Academy, Children Education, Education In Pakistan

The quality education is an indispensable and inevitable agent for change as

education is a process of civilization and development. The issue of deterioration of quality in education in Pakistan, especially decline in quality of education is a prominent problem. School education provides a pathway to higher education.

Mostly students up till 5th grade don't know properly how to read and write English and Urdu even unable to solve basic mathematical problems. The quality of education provided at primary school level is not good enough to form sound base for children for further education.

Students join college and university level education with the learning concepts which they gain at school level. The concepts, students learn at school level help in understanding advance form of these concepts at higher education level. If students got sophisticated concepts at this level, ultimately, will work smartly in higher education. This is possible only through quality education. Presently, Quality education is need of the time. In Pakistan, school education is suffering due to many reasons. Teachers’ education, curriculum and basic facilities are the pillars of quality education, and in Pakistan all these are criticized on many forums.

One year ago I worked in a local school of my village as part of my course work. It is a girls school till 5th grade. I worked there for 2 months and I used to visit school every Saturday and used to spend whole day with children. It was great experienced as I had the chance to have a closer look and interact with children for such longer period of time to understand some basic problems. Specially i worked with 5th grade students and it was most senior class there.

The problems I noticed had some causes like many children were not properly able to attend the school regularly because they had to work with their parents in order to earn money and they were belonging to poor families. Some parents do not send their children to schools because there is lack of awareness regarding importance of basic education for every child. Some children I met were having some family issues and personal problems as well that were not addressed or provided counseling for. I found some loop holes in teaching methods and gap in teacher student interaction. Some children were not able to pay the fee so they were dropped out of school.

As far I have figured out and how i can contribute is by arranging discussion meetings with the principal and it the teachers to dig deeper about causes, difficulties and other issues that are affecting children and education. Creating awareness to the parents about need and importance of education. Providing children with counseling, planning activities at least once per week to create more suitable and cohesive learning environment for children.

I can consult my mentor of educational psychology to help me in this project. My father has 30 years of teaching experience in school so i can benefit from his experience and involve him in the work. Planning extra curricular activities and engaging children in learning through those activities. Eventually i can motivate some other fellows to volunteer in this cause like my own cousins, friends and other who are educated. Fund raising for children who cannot pay fee.

No single person can make a big difference at once but if some of us initiate and add some value by doing their part and lighting the candle of their part then definitely it make a huge difference. Little efforts pays off indeed. Let us all take responsibility of our own part and do something for our coming generations.

#Just start and do your part # Educate children, serve our future generations.