“Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence”

Education in Pakistan has its own charm, here students enjoy their freedom during attaining education. Demographically Pakistan has a very huge area and two third of the population comprises youth in it.

Taaleem Foundation started working in the education sector with a vision of making Pakistan a prosperous and literate country. Taaleem foundation has been working in Baluchistan since the last three decades, thousands of children have completed their schooling from Taaleem foundation Baluchistan. Taaleem foundation Grammar Schools has integrated the new quality standard of education in the province of Baluchistan. Baluchistan is known as the land of minerals — the land of the great people. Balochistan is not solely defined as the wealthiest province of Pakistan with numerous natural resources and minerals such as coal, oil, copper, gold, marble, natural gas, etc, but is also the biggest province that covers 44 percent land of Pakistan.

Political Personnel has the obligation to provide free and compulsory education to all the children of Pakistan but unfortunately, due to the political socio-economical stigma, education always put behind the impediments. Taaleem foundation believes that education for all is the only thing which can eliminate the deficiency of children and that can only be possible if the education is provided to the children based on equality and latest curriculum.

Free and compulsory primary education is the right of every child. Right to Education Pakistan. The RTE campaign urges government officials to enforce education laws set forth in Article 25-A of the Pakistani Constitution, which states “The State shall provide free and compulsory education to all children of the age of five to sixteen years in such manner as may be determined by law.” This has been internationally acknowledged in a host of declarations and covenants, including the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Article 26). While being a signatory and open proponent of these international declarations on education, Pakistan did not afford the same legal status to its children’s education domestically for 60 years. While many agencies and state policies were introduced to battle illiteracy, there was no collective commitment to education, especially from the political stakeholders.

The Federal and provincial compulsory education ordinances bring wider political ownership to the cause of free primary education for all children. In the past, despite numerous policies and international commitments, education had failed to establish itself in the national priorities. Many believe that this situation was contributed to by the lack of political ownership. By ratifying the right to free and compulsory education for all children, Pakistan’s political stakeholders have also publicly declared to improve connected educational issues like improved financing, equity, and learning experience in public schools.

Inclusive schools that demonstrate good practices in Pakistan are restricted to big cities in the private sector. Particularly the reason behind it is that the parents are not aware of the importance of education, and they did not being guided by society in this regard. Deficiency mainly causes due to the ignorance of discriminated society but Taaleem foundation is a platform for the children and also for the parents where they not only guided about the importance of education but it’s teaching and faculty increase their knowledge about children education. It is pertinent for the Government and society to take a step to cater this societal problem as children are our future and without proper guidance, our new generation is in risk.

Federal Minister for Education and Professional Training Mr. Shafqat Mahmood visited a school in F-7/2, Islamabad on 12th December 2018. He saw the Interactive Conceptual Learning Labs of Taaleem Foundation in Primary and High School sections along with the DG FDE & JEA Ministry of Education and Professional Training.

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s federal government on Tuesday identified host of lacunae in its education system and promised to prioritize four action areas – access to education, uniformity in standards, quality of education and skill development – to bridge the gap.

“This is very unfortunate that our literacy rate has gone down from 60 percent to 58 percent in last seventy years while 22.5 million children are still out of school,” Shafqat Mahmood, Minister for Education and Professional Training, said while launching the National Education Policy Framework.

He said that more than 41 percent of the enrolled children in primary schools dropout before completing grade 5, resulting in “very low” enrollment in middle and high schools.

The minister said that three different streams of school systems were working in the country and that’s why “there is a massive disparity between curriculum, school facilities, teachers and students achievements.”

“We have created a system of winners (the elite) and losers (the poor), and this needs to be addressed immediately,” he said, adding that bringing up children with vastly different mindsets was resulting in a “fractured national psyche.”

The minister also detailed missing facilities in the schools which were resulting in “on an average only 60 percent of the enrolled students pass grade 10 examinations.”

The education policy has also highlighted the lack of skilled labor in the country as only 1.9 percent of labor force has received any technical or vocational training.

“The current education system can impart technical skills to only 400,000 students per year while the requirement is five million per year,” the policy says.

The policy also envisages mainstreaming of Madrassas (religious seminaries) through active dialogue with the seminaries boards to give madrasa students “an equal opportunity through core subjects and skills programs.”

The government through the education policy promises to bring more children into schools by applying technology solutions like establishment of digital classrooms and help students access learning content through offline, online and prepackaged solution.

To ensure an equitable playing field for all of Pakistan’s children, the government has promised to establish a National Curriculum Council to identify core subjects for all students, and regularly assess students’ learning outcomes in all educational systems.

“Children should not be held back due to their socioeconomic status, gender, ethnicity or religion,” the minister said. “All children have a fair and equal opportunity to receive high quality of education to achieve their full potential and we are trying our best to ensure that.”

Azam Khan, an education expert, said the government’s education policy mainly highlights the problems and lacunae in the system which everybody already knows.

“The policy does not talk about overall spending on the education with respect to the country’s GDP which remains around 2 percent, the lowest even in South Asian region,” he told Arab News. “The spending needs to be raised to at least 3 percent.”

Khan suggested the government to focus on improvement of educational standard in the public sector, and ensure a uniform medium of education in all private and public sector schools to abolish “apartheid education system.”

Prime Minister Imran Khan, in his maiden speech after winning the election,had stressed the need to reform education system with ‘uniform education for all.

The Honorable Minister for Federal Education & Professional Training on Tuesday at 27th November, 2018 launched the National Education Policy Framework 2018 under the government’s first 100-day plan. At that event by signing the admission documents, Minister of Federal Education enrolled six (06) out of school students of the Federal Capital into the different schools of Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) near their residences.

The Ministry of Federal Education and Professional Training on Tuesday launched the National Education Policy Framework 2018 under the government’s first 100-day plan.

The education ministry in its framework has identified four key areas it shall be focusing on: improving the quality of education, enrolment of out of school children, introducing a uniform education system, and skill development of the youth.

The framework was formally launched by Minister for Federal Education and Professional Training Shafqat Mahmood in a ceremony held in Islamabad.

The minister vowed to resolve the above-mentioned challenges over the course of the next five years and revealed that a National Task Force had been established to identify key areas for the development of education.

“We consulted with donors, NGOs, and experts in the formulation of the framework,” he said, adding that an Inter-Provincial Ministers Conference was also arranged during which the education policy was discussed with representatives of the different provinces.

The minister said that the government was all set to bring back into the fold more than 20 million out of school boys and girls.

Currently, he said, there are three kinds of educational systems existing in the country: madressah system, public school system and English-medium or private school system. Under the new education policy, a uniform education system will be introduced with a uniform syllabus “to bring unity among the nation”.

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He also laid emphasis on the government’s efforts in bringing improvements to the quality of education, adding that a market-oriented education would be provided to students so that they can find jobs easily. In the same vein, the minister underlined the need for skills development saying that it was the only way for the socioeconomic development of the country.

He said that the country faces a shortfall of middle schools due to which students are unable to continue their studies after having completed primary education. To counter this, middle-school classes will be held following primary school class timings so that the need for middle schools can be met, he explained.

To tackle the growing need for teachers, the government also plans on launching a Smart Schools System under which online lectures will be delivered in schools facing a lack of teaching staff, said Minister Mahmood.

Smart classrooms will be established in every school of the Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT), he said adding that the use of technology was the need of the hour.

An Educational Volunteer Programme would also be initiated to fulfill the demand for teachers, he said, and added that under this programme the educated youth will be given the opportunity to extend their services voluntarily to teach children.

The education minister said that the government will also increase the number of non-formal schools to achieve the task of maximum enrolment.

He said a dialogue had been initiated to create consensus among the different educational systems.

Later, the minister also launched an out of school children campaign in the federal capital. By signing the admission documents, he enrolled six students of the federal capital into schools established near their residences.

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شازیہ احمد لانگو بلوچستان کی غیور اور بہادر بیٹی جس کی پہچان سیاسی اور سماجی خدمات ہئں ۔انہوں نے خواتین کے سیاسی اور سماجی حقوق کے لیے ۱۶ سال کی عمر سی ہی جدوجہد شروع کی اور اپنے کام کے حوالے سے ملکی اور بیین الاقوامی سطح پر ہہچانئ گئی ۔۔ انہوں نے سارک یوتھ الائنس کی ممبر کی حیثیت سے پاکستان اور بلوچستان کے نوجوانوں کے مسائل پر آواز اٹھائی تو ساتھ ایشین وومن الائنس کی پاکستان چیپٹر کی جنرل سیکرٹری کی حیثیت سے پاکستان کی خواتین کی بلوچی شناخت بھی بنین اور پاک یو ایس المنائی نیٹورک کی جنرل سیکرٹری منتخب ہو کے سماجی کاموں میں بھی اپنی شناخت بنائی ۔۔۔
شازیہ کو قدمُ قدم پہ مشکلات کا سامنا رہا اور لیکن وہ ہمت اور جرات کے ساتھ میدان میں ڈٹی رہی اور یہ کہتی رہی کہ اور ہزار مخالفتوں کے باوجود خواتین کی حقوق ، انکی تعلیم ، صحت اور دیگر مسائل پر اپنی آواز بلند کرتی رہی اس نے دنیا پھر نہ صرف اپنی ثقافت کو بلوچی لباس کے زریعے پیش کیا بلکہ اپنی جدوجہد سے دنیا بھر میں پاکستان کی خواتین کا روشن چہرہ بھی بنی ۔۔۔
شازیہ ایک رائٹر بھی ہیں اور وہاں بھی شازیہ ایک فیمںسٹ کے طور پر اپنی بھر پور چاپ چھوڑتی نظر آتی ہیں اور اپنے افسانوں میں آج کی عورت کو درپیش مسائل کو بہت خوبصورت افسانوں میں ڈھال کے بھی عورتوں کے حقوق کے لیے لڑتی نظر آتی ہے ۔۔ وہ بلوچستان میں خواتین کے حقوق کی پہلی باقائدہ تنظیم سمو راج ء ونڈ تحریک کی بانی اراکین میں سے بھی ایک ہے ۔
شازیہ نے ۲۰۱۲ میں اپنی سرکاری ملازمت کو اس وقت خیرباد کہا جب انکی پروموشن سترہ گریڈ میں ہوئی وہ ۲۰۱۰ مین سولہ گریڈ میں اپائنٹ ہوئی تھی مگر انہوں نے سماجی خدمات کوُترجیح دی کیونکہ سرکاری ملازمت میں انکے لیے سماجی کاموں لیے وقت میسر نہیں تھا۔
بلوچستان کی اس بیٹی نے اپنے کام کے حوالے سے بے شمار اعزازات بھی حاصل کیے وہ اب بھی یہ سمجھتی ہے کہ خواتین کا سیاسی عمل میں حصہ لینے پر ہی خواتین کو اس قابلُ بنایا جا سکتا ہے کہ وہ اپنے بنیادی حقوق حاصل کر سکیں ۔لیکن انکی سماجی خدمات بھی کم نہیں وہ ایڈز کے مریضوں کے لئے بھی کام کرتی رہیں ہیں ہج۔ وہ خواتین، خواجہ سراوں اور نوجوانوں کی بہتری کے لیے بھی سرگرم ہیں ۔ بچوں کے حقوق اور انکی تعلیم کے حوالے سے بھی ک کر رہی ہین اور آج بھی ضلع لچھی کے دور افتادہ علاقے مین غریب بچوں کو تعلیم کی دولت سے مالا مال کر رہی ہی جہان ان بچوں کو کتابیں ، یونیفارم، اسٹیشنری۔ ، کھانا اور رہائش کی سہولیات مفت دی جاتی ہیں۔
آئیے ہم سب شازیہ لانگو کو ووٹ دے کر کامیاب کرائیں اور این ۔ پیس ایوارڈ جس کے لئے بلوچستان سے پہلی دفعہ کوئی نامزد ہوا ہے ، کو بلوچستان لے آئین ۔ھ
شازیہ کو ووٹ دینے کے لیے مندرجہ زیل لنک میں جائیے اور اپنی معلومات دے کے ووٹ کیجئے ۔