Pakistan’s National Education Policy Framework 2018
The Ministry of Federal Education and Professional Training, Government of Pakistan approved and launched the National Education Policy Framework in 2018.
The government identifies that the first and foremost education challenge that Pakistan faces is addressing Out of School Children (OOSC) and ensuring that enrolled children complete their education. The second education challenge for Pakistan is addressing uniform education for all children. The third education challenge is providing quality education to all children across the system, and the fourth challenge is that tertiary education and skills training face serious challenges.
The Ministry in its framework has identified four key areas in education sector including improving quality education, enrollment of out of school children, imparting skills development to youth and introducing uniform education system and reiterated to resolve these challenges in next five years.
The strategic priority areas under the National Education Policy Framework are:
Priority 1: Decrease OOSC and Increase School Completion Priority 2: Uniformity in Education Standards Priority 3: Improve the Quality of Education Priority 4: Enhance Access to and Relevance of Skills Training
According to the Policy framework, the Ministry will ensure that it has the capacity and capability to deliver on the education priorities. This will be achieved by:
- Refocusing roles and responsibilities to lead policy dialogue and implementation
- Strengthen core functions at the federal level
- Setting an example in schools under the Federal Ministry.
- Evidence-based decision making by improved use of information
Full National Education Policy Framework 2018 can be viewed here.