National Educational Policy 2009

Submitted to : Dr. Muhammad AminSubmitted by : Sahar Fatima

M.phill ELPS

Introduction

• Before the expiration of National Education Policy (NEP) for the period of 1998 to 2010, the government announced the new National Education Policy (NEP) for the next decade in 2009, called the "National Education Policy (2009)".As the Education Policy (1998 - 2010) was not producing the desired results, the review process for the National Education Policy 1998-2010 was initiated in 2005 and the White Paper was finalised in March 2007. The White Paper became the basis for development of the new Education Policy.

Reason behind NEP 2009:

There are two main reason that promted Ministry of education to launch a policy before time horizon of NEP 1998-20101.The previous policy was not producing desied result and performance remained defecient in several aspects like quality and equity in getting education2.The second reason behind the policy is international challenges like Millennium development goals (MDG’s) and education for all (EFA).

CHALLENGES• Poor Quality of Teachers & Managers• Quality of curriculum, textbooks & exams• Low level of literacy• Out of school children• Dropouts• Public Private Partnership• In-adequate financing• Gender Equity• Poor monitoring & evaluation• Imbalance in primary, middle & secondary schools• Inconvenient school location

Focus of NEP 2009This policy identifies the two fundamental causes that lie behind defeciencies in educational performance.1.Commitment Gap2.Implementation GapSo, the policy focus on filling these gaps

Sailient feature of educational policy 2009

• Unformity in education system• Globalization• Social cohesion• Bridging public private gap• Overcoming structural divides• Management and planning capacity• Involvement of communities• Islamic education• Early Childhood education• Elemantary education

• Secondary and higher education• Literacy and formal education• Emergency education• Improving quality education• Universal and Free Primary( upto 2015) and Secondary

Education (by 2025)• The Literacy rate will be enhanced to 86% by 2015• promotion of Equity• Relevance to Labour Market • Financial allocation of 7% of GDP by 2015• Encourage Private sector 

•Career Counselling at higher secondary level•Enhance qualifications for employment as teachers•Pre-service & in-service teacher training•Accreditation and certification of teachers•Merit based teacher recruitment, professional development, promotions & postings•Curriculum development•Competitive publishing of textbooks and learning materials

• Achieve the MDG goals.• All Primary schools shall be upgraded to Middle level• Well developed plan for expanding school facilities.• High priority to reducing drop out rates• Improved school environment• Deeni Madarass• Improved Examination System• Medium of Instruction

Criticism• The government has set a target in its education policy to bring all children from 6 to

10 years in elementary schools by 2015 and to increase the literacy rate to 85% by 2015,The government has set the target but no plan has been made to encourage the children as well as adults to take admission in the schools. The targets are unrealistic. Because due to rising inflation the cost of living is increasing day by day and most of the population is living by hand to mouth. The poverty is increasing at a rapid rate therefore, the number of children going to school is decreasing, and the government cannot achieve this target unless the poverty is reduced to minimum. In the policy the government has not been able to justify that how it is going to achieve this target.Therefore, the target set is not properly planed and it seems that government has set the target without proper survey, research and planning.

Conclusion

The government has made a good education policy, and the aims and objectives of the government are at increasing the literacy rate of the country and development of education sector within five years. The government has made targets and defined the policy to be implemented. The policy designed is good and will only be successful if there are implemented as is desired.

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