Post on 23-Dec-2015
Political Parties DialogueThe Right to Education – Article 25-
A
Youth Parliament of Pakistan (YPP)stance on basic education
M. Atique Khokhar (YP11 -ICT01) Yasir Riaz (YP12-ICT02)
Youth Parliament Members from Islamabad.
Article 25a of the amended Constitution of
Pakistan guarantees the right to education
Millennium Development Goals
To ensure access of free and compulsory
primary education to all children
To eliminate gender disparity in in primary
and secondary education
Article 25a
In party manifesto of five largest parties (PPP, PML-N ,PML-Q, MQM and ANP) in 2008 election
All mention their commitment to ‘education for all’.
Only two mention girls’ education as a specific area needing attention.
Just two mention their commitment to increased funding for education.
Only one addresses the issue of language of instruction.
Priorities of Political Parties
One-third of primary age children, are not in school at all.
Around 35 percent of those children who do attend school and make it to grade 3 cannot do single digit subtraction.
Drop out rate is very high Each day around a quarter of the country’s
teachers do not turn up to school
Problems and issues
Missing facilities at public institutions
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Lack of commitment by Government
Lack of transparency in whole system
Poor school facilities
Accessibility issues
Gender disparity
Poor experience
Issue of medium of instruction
Reasons
A sustained political will
A Narrative of Reform in whole system
What we need…!!!
National public advocacy campaign to create
awareness in community and in parents
High level political commitment
Clear understanding about medium of instruction
Strong monitoring system
Way forward
Consensus among political parties to make the
constitutional right to an education a reality
each province needs a core group that will get
under the hood of education issues, exploring
the technical aspects of what needs fixing and
how
Way forward
The entire system should then turn its attention to the biggest challenge of all which
– to hammer home the point – is implementation,
implementation, implementation.
Implementation !
THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME