Islamabad:With an aim to evolve a broad consensus-based agenda plan of action, the Institute of Development and Economic Alternatives (IDEAS), Islamabad, in collaboration with the Open Society Foundation, the South Asia Initiative, is organising a two-day dialogue on educational reforms in Pakistan.
The dialogue is being organised at the Harvard University on July 15-16 in which eminent personalities including MNAs from different political parties, renowned educationists, leading media persons, senior bureaucrats, politicians, and representatives of NGOs working on education in Pakistan would participate.
This diverse group would interact with internationally reputed academics that have produced rigorous evidence on the education sector in Pakistan and in relevant comparative contexts around the developing world. The objective of the dialogue is the marriage between research on education in Pakistan and educational policy formation and implementation by the provincial and federal governments.
The year 2011 has been declared Pakistan’s year of education and recently enacted Article 25A of the Constitution commits the state to provide free and compulsory education to all children between the ages of five to sixteen.
This recognition is an opportune moment to begin the process of forging a new deal on education for Pakistan. There is also the emergence of an active education market place and the existence of deep parental commitment to their children’s education. Pakistan currently faces an educational emergency, evident by the facts that 30% of its population lives under educational poverty, and one out of every ten children globally not in primary school is a Pakistani child.The news.
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