Essay Topic: Education in Pakistan has Failed to Produce Efficient Human Resource
Introduction
- Significance of education in a society
- Education considered as a path of sustainable economic development
- Failure of education sector in Pakistan to produce efficient human resource
Evidences of Failure of Education System to Produce Efficient Human Resource
- Absence of culture of innovation and research
- Poor economic growth
- Dearth of technical human resource
- Unemployment explosion
- Economic deterioration
- Mass Poverty
- Political polarization
- Visible bad governance
- Corruption at every level
- Lack of tolerance
Reasons of Failures to Provide Resourceful Manpower
- Poor quality of education system
- Acute shortage of teachers
- Absence of quality laboratories
- Absence of research work in tertiary education
- Defective curricula
- Focus on memorization, instead of learning
- Irrelevance of curricula with the practical workings of society
- Lack of provision of quality technical education or vocational institutes
- Extremely low level of public investment
- Politicization of university campuses
- Dual medium of instruction at secondary level
National or International Recent Initiatives to Improve Educational Standards
- Redefinition of article 25A
- Education for all plan
- Focus on Millennium Development Goals
- Attainment of universal primary education
- National Educational Policies
- National Education Policy Framework 2018
- Vision 2025
- Compulsory teachers training
- Joint Declaration on education 2011
- Introduction of Danish school system in Punjab
Policy Suggestionto Provide Efficient Human Resource
- Increase in public investment in education sector
- Public-private partnership
- Cooperation of Business community, NGO’s and civil society with government to improve quality and relevance of education
- Provision of free technical education
- Recognition of importance of social sciences in universities
- Public-private partnership
- Introduction of updated and relevant curricula
- Encouragement of research work in university campuses through economic incentives
- Provision of quality laboratories
- Need to improve quality of teaching through frequent Teacher’s training programmes
- Provision of scholarships at tertiary level education to the needy
- Formation of international level quality universities to avoid brain-drain
- Formation of vocational institutes in all the rural urban areas alike
- Improve service delivery through political commitment
- Lay emphasis on diversification from general to tertiary education
Conclusion
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