Education Improvement in KPK, Pakistan! Is This Really Happening

[iftikharalam]

As a home schooling father, I have a lot to complain about low standards of education in Pakistan. After all, this is why I have decided to take a different course when it came to education of my own kids. Private or Public, it is really difficult to find a good quality educational institute even in the most educated city of Karachi which is also industrial hub of the country.

Public schools suffer from lack of resources, corrupt governance and very low expenditure on education while private sector is owned by businessmen who are more interested in money than quality of education.I hate to be a pessimist, but when it comes to improvement of governance in Pakistan, I have no hope of any betterment in near future until and unless we revamp the whole structure of our major institutions.

But the recent news emerging out of KPK especially about their educational reforms had a hint of improvement.

KPK Improving Education Standards Indicators

Are they really improving their education standards and infrastructure of public schools in the province?

Well, the evidence suggests they are.According to the annual report published by Alif Ailan, only KPK showed improvement by 13.5% in education score in 2015 out of all 4 provinces while the other 3 provinces showed negative indicators. These are also alarming indicators for Punjab and Sindh that are ruled by same chief ministers for 7th year now. On the other hand, KPK showed a solid increase in their education standards under the 2nd year rule of the new party ruling any province for the first time.




The province was once at the bottom of the list due to the most corrupt and incompetent governance of ANP in the province. This year, KPK switched its position with Sindh to claim second position after Punjab. The greatest positive came from net enrollment ratio which is increased to 83%, best among all provinces leaving behind Punjab with 70%.

The high percentage of new enrollments also reflects building trust of masses on public schools especially in a province where schools are often under threat from terrorists along with a substantial portion of population which is not interested in modern education at all. The net enrollment ratio may also increase further in the coming year as the province launches their new initiative in April this year,#GharAyaUstaad to expand enrollments.



Atif Khan, young and energetic education minister of the province also initiated an array of other measures including bio-metric system and use of virtual dashboards to monitor quality of education and teacher’s presence in the public schools. The innovative initiative of virtual dashboard to monitor classroom activities in real time received recognition from across the globe with a UK based study suggesting the same for UK schools.




According to education minister, the province is first time recruiting teachers on merit based on the national testing service which is another positive in a culture where all government recruitment are based on political liking instead of merit.



All in all, the initiatives look good and the minister of education is talking sense in most of his media appearances. For now we can hope for better Pakistan and can wait and see how things shape up in next few years.

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[chandaa]

Tou kya hua, IMRAN KHAN ne KPK mein kya kar liya - Bikaoo media cell of Nawaz league.

 

[eye-eye-PTI]

KP's education is moving to right direction, I was listenting to Atif Khan's interview yesterday with team UD that 1000 new community schools for girls will open by the end of this month insha Allah.

here's the article of Sir Michael Barbar ( British educationist who recommended the KP model to British govt along with two others )

Stand and Deliver: Review of Michael Barber’s ‘How to run a government’

Jen Gold
15 April 2015

How to Run a Government, so that citizens benefit and taxpayers don’t go crazy
Michael Barber (Penguin, March 2015)

The skills needed to win elections are very different from those required to govern effectively. In his new book Sir Michael Barber makes a compelling case for governments to pay far more attention to the science of delivery – the “set of processes that enables governments to deliver ambitious goals by learning effectively as they go, and refining as necessary.”

Barber uses the problems that recently beset US healthcare reforms as a cautionary tale. Few would deny that Barack Obama is one of the most skilled political campaigners of his generation. But the technical problems that plagued the roll out of the HealthCare.gov website were hugely damaging – and entirely avoidable.

As Barber persuasively argues, from the moment the Affordable Care Act passed into law in 2010, the White House and Department of Health and Human Services should have tracked progress, identified problems, and stress-tested solutions. Instead, the full scale of the website’s problems came to light only in the autumn of 2013. This flagship reform had simply been left to flounder under a lack of proactive management.

Over the course of its eight chapters, How to Run a Government offers a blueprint for avoiding such blunders and successfully delivering campaign commitments. In particular, Barber highlights the importance of leaders establishing clear priorities and ensuring the government machine has the capacity to deliver, aided by central delivery units; emphasises the need to build resilience into government by establishing monitoring routines and developing strategies for rapid problem solving; and considers the potential for linking performance to budget decisions.

To this end, Barber lays out 57 “rules”. Above all else, he sees delivery units as the engines keeping administrations relentlessly focused on effective implementation. These small units, operating at the centre of either departments or entire governments, gather and scrutinize performance data, regularly brief leaders, and intervene when necessary.

Barber’s recommendations are based on decades of direct experience working for and advising governments, both here and overseas. Between 2001 and 2005, He set up and ran the Prime Minister’s Delivery Unit (PDMU). This model is now a global phenomenon, with similar units on six continents.

With the general election and subsequent spending review very much on the horizon, this book offers a number of timely lessons for a future government. For one, it recommends establishing a central delivery function at the outset. It took the Blair administration until its second term – after four years of slow progress on key reforms – to establish this capacity in the form of the PMDU. The coalition government was also slow on the uptake; the PMDU was abolished in 2010 but just a year later, frustrated by the lack of a means to monitor and drive key priorities, it reappeared under the guise of the Implementation Unit.

Equally, Barber notes that leadership continuity really does matter. Reshuffles and constant ministerial churn can seriously undermine delivery. Barber offers a memorable anecdote in this regard:
“Kim Howells MP held six different roles during Blair’s ten-year premiership. I saw a good deal of him when, at Transport, we were enjoying collaborating on the brave effort to ensure that the trains ran on time. We were just getting some traction when, for no reason I ever understood, he was gone again, this time to the Foreign Office to deal with the Middle East.”

Finally, Barber points to a range of trends – from open data and transparency to continued outsourcing, digital services, and privacy concerns – that will shape the trajectory of delivery reforms over the coming decade. He highlights the multiple innovations of other jurisdictions from which the UK can learn: Maryland’s commitment to transparency in performance data, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s use of virtual ‘dashboards’ to monitor its school system in real-time, and Malaysia’s use of cross-sector innovation labs to formulate delivery action plans – to name but a few.

Ultimately, Barber isn’t advocating a static approach. The science of delivery, he tells us, “is not a complete science and never will be.” But whatever the result in May, the need to restore fiscal balance means the next government can ill afford to ignore Barber’s advice.

Jen Gold is a Researcher at the Institute for Government and has authored a number of reports on policy implementation and delivery units, including Data-driven Delivery and International Delivery.
This article originally appeared in the Spring 2015 edition of the Fabian Review Related Topics: Civil Service, Government, Politics

http://www.fabians.org.uk/stand-and-...-a-government/

Iftikhar Alam Sahab ne apnay article mein Education minister ka nam ghalat likha hai:

It should be Atif Khan instead of Imran Khan

" Imran Khan, young and energetic education minister of the province also initiated an array of other measures including bio-metric system and use of virtual dashboards to monitor quality of education and teacher’s presence in the public schools. The innovative initiative of virtual dashboard to monitor classroom activities in real time received recognition from across the globe with a UK based study suggesting the same for UK schools."

 

[GreenMaple]

Well done KPK. The performance of a government must be felt and seen by the people, not read through ads in the media.

 

[iftikharalam]

I am amazed by the rating of Punjab, which is now in negative growth for education standards! Jaahil Punjab wants to vote for building a Naaaali or road and showbaz makes sure that their next generation also remain jaaahil to keep voting for Hamza and Maryam.
Do These Punjabi Supporters of N League even know that out of all 4 provinces, azad kashmir and even gligit baltistan, Punjab has the highest percentage of unschooled children (51%). How come these jaaahils vote for these ganjas and how come they are not responsible for this pathetic condition of education in Punjab?

 

[JuanM67]

By keeping the Awam jahill, these clowns, the two retarded idiots are running punjab. The Haram khor brothers days are numbered. Death by hanging is a must.

 

[affanpervez]

MashaAllah.

 

[iftikharalam]

Iftikhar Alam Sahab ne apnay article mein Education minister ka nam ghalat likha hai:

It should be Atif Khan instead of Imran Khan

" Imran Khan, young and energetic education minister of the province also initiated an array of other measures including bio-metric system and use of virtual dashboards to monitor quality of education and teacher’s presence in the public schools. The innovative initiative of virtual dashboard to monitor classroom activities in real time received recognition from across the globe with a UK based study suggesting the same for UK schools."

Ahh Sorry! Imran Khan merai sir per sawar hai :) Thank you for correction!

 

[jadoon437]

jangla bus aur metro kab banaey gey

 

[ImranK]

'Bus nahin hogi to ghareeb log school kaise aaen ge???' Patwari logic ;)

 

[eye-eye-PTI]

I am amazed by the rating of Punjab, which is now in negative growth for education standards! Jaahil Punjab wants to vote for building a Naaaali or road and showbaz makes sure that their next generation also remain jaaahil to keep voting for Hamza and Maryam.
Do These Punjabi Supporters of N League even know that out of all 4 provinces, azad kashmir and even gligit baltistan, Punjab has the highest percentage of unschooled children (51%). How come these jaaahils vote for these ganjas and how come they are not responsible for this pathetic condition of education in Punjab?

Bhai when current scenario supports them why on earth they would want to educate the people? Imagine if there was no Imran Khan in Pakistani politics:

would there be any Laptop schemes for the youth?

Would there be any youth festivals conducted at all?

They started these schemes to distract the youth and educated people going away from this so called badla huwa Punjab.

PTI ko KP ki education aor health pe bahot ziada focus kerna ho gaa, kam az kam aik province to theek ho, baki doosray soobon ki marzi agar woh iss system se khush hain let them be happy. KP k logon ne jiss aitemad ka izhaar kia hai unhain uska reward parhi likh aor sehat mandd generations k tor pe milna chahiye.

 

[Amer]

یہ سب بیکار ہے اسکا نتیجہ تو دور آید ہے ، یعنی کوئی شعبدہ ہی نہیں لوگوں کو بیوقوف بنا کر ووٹ لینے کا
کوئی فوری سیاسی فائدہ نہیں، واقعی پی ٹی آئ والے بیوقوف ہیں

کوئی میٹرو شیٹرو بناؤ ، کسی جعلی بجلی پروجیکٹ کا افتتاح کرو ، کسی چلتی ٹرین کو نئے نام سے دوبارہ چلاؤ ؛
کوئی سڑکیں ؛ کوئی فلائی اوور ، کوئی سیمنٹ ؛ کوئی بجری ، کوئی سریے والا پروجیکٹ ،
کوئی کھاؤ پیو پروگرام

یعنی یہ کیا بات ہوئی ، پہلی باری میں ہی پولیس ، صحت اور تعلیم ٹھیک کرنا شروع کر دی صوبے کی ؟
اوۓ بیوقوفو ؛ پنجاب سے سیکھو ، جہاں تیس سال سے اتنے دردمند حکمران پاے جاتے ہیں
جو بار بار سڑکیں ہی ٹھیک کری جا رہے ہیں

کچھ نہیں بننا اس قوم کا

 

[kakajee]

The benchmark should be not only the opening of the new schools and enrolling kids (which in itself is a huge achievement nevertheless) but the quality of education.

As long as we dont have the quality teaching, merely enrollment is not going to help. This will take a lot of time, mat be a decade to start producing scientists and not clerks that Pakistan usually does.

The direction is right.

 

[OnlyPK]

3 idiots ko ye khbr perhty HeartAttack aa jna hy [hilar]:lol:

 

[Okara]

Feel proud being part of PTI family. Please keep a check on PTI lead KPK government and make them work hard to fix the long pending issues.

 

[HORUS]

nihari logic........parhoo gay likhoo gay hoo gay kharaab.....jangla bus per safar karo gay tu banoo gay nawaab

 

[majidwaraich]

Very nice, I am pleased to read positive news. More needs to be done !!!

 

[Nice2MU]

I don't know why I always miss certified Potwaris like Perfect id...t, Muqadus, Burger etc in such 'Chitroli' Thread.

There was a unconfirmed Potwari or Potwaran i.e. @United who told me in a discussion on Education Improvement that making Boundary Wall, providing Water & Toilet facilities, Hiring 14000 school teachers, Monitoring of teachers etc has nothing to do with Education. After This statement I raised my hands up and said to him/ her that no further discussion is possible with you on this topic. So what one can expect from such person?

 

[jani1]

I don't know why I always miss certified Potwaris like Perfect id...t, Muqadus, Burger etc in such 'Chitroli' Thread.

same feelings here,,,,(bigsmile)

 

[iftikharalam]

I don't know why I always miss certified Potwaris like Perfect id...t, Muqadus, Burger etc in such 'Chitroli' Thread.

True! I was prepared to come up with more alarming facts about pathetic condition of punjab's education standards once a noora replies to this, but to my amazement, not a single one commented on this thread! I bet, these jaahils dont even click on threads with education in their titles, if I can replace it with a road or naali or a bridge, they will all jump on it. These Ignorant menatlly sick nooras dont even know that Showbaz is MUJRIM OF PUNJAB AND PUNJABIS! Negative growth in education after 30 years of rule in Punjab, they dont even care about their future generations!