Literacy Trends in Pakistan - UNESCO Islamabad

Policy1947Pakistan EducationConference1959Commission onNational Education1970The New EducationPolicy1972The Education Policy1979National EducationPolicy1992National EducationPolicy, 1992-2002National EducationPolicy, 1998-2002Target (Literates/Literacy Rate)NilNil5.0Millionto be madeliterateTable-5Adult Literacy – Policy Targets and Strategies (1947-2010)Strategies• Adult education by provinces• College students to participate in literacy campaign• Existing school buildings and staff to be used• Use of school children as the teachers of their illiterate parents• College students as adult literacy teachers• Each one teach one• Media use for adult education• Functional education• Employers to make the employees literate• National Education Corps• Non-Formal Education Programmes11.0 • Massive literacy Programmes• Literacy Centers in schools, factories, farms, union council halls and other community places.• Media use for literacy• 35 % by 1982-85• 40 %by 1992-93• 80 % by 2000• 50 % by 1995• 70 % by 2002By 2002 – 2003• 55 %• 70 % Male• 40 % FemaleBy 2010• 70 %• 85 %• 55.5 Female• Mosque schools and Mohalla schools.• Student volunteers corps• Use of television for literacy• Creation of Literacy and Mass Education Commissions• Primary Education Compulsory.• Involvement of NGOs• Massive efforts to enhance literacy rate• Literacy programmes will be integrated with skill based community programmes• Use of electronic and print media• Awards to meritorious work in adult literacy• Appropriate legislation to allocate funds for promotion of adult literacy, non transferable and non lapsable• Decentralization of planning mechanism.• Special attention to out-of-school children• Emphasis on maximum utilization of resources e.g. GoP, NGO community initiatives, Boy Scouts and Girl Guides.• Increase in Non-Formal Basic Edu-Community centers from 70000 to 82000 by 2000• Media involvement to impart life skills to the neo-literate.15