Current education system

vision of 2025

Group members
Marium Fatima
Mohsin Nawaz
Muhammad Umair
Esha Tariq
Ayesha Khalid
 What is education?
▪Increase in
–Stock of skills
–Knowledge
–Understanding possessed by individuals or society
▪Delivery of knowledge and skills from teachers to student
Content
 Current education system
 Structure
 Literacy rate of Pakistan
 Achievements in education system
 Problems
 Solution
 Introduction of vision 2025
 Elements of vision 2025
 Mission of HEC
 Priorities of HEC
 Un-sustainable development goals
 One belt one road
 Major challenges
 Action plans
 Summary
 What is education system?

▪ Includes
–Institutions involved in delivering formal education.
–Bodies directly involved in financing, managing, operating or
regulating such institutions
▪ Rules and regulations guiding individual and institutional
interaction
Education system of Pakistan
▪ Divided into six levels:
–Primary
–Middle
–High
–Secondary
–Higher secondary
–University
Structure of education system of
Pakistan
Pakistan higher education
Literacy rate of Pakistan
 The literacy rate of Pakistan rise from 58% to 70% in four
years by providing school access to the approximately 22.8
million students ,improving education system among all ages
with modern technology.

 Male:72.6%
 Female:53.3%
LITERACY RATE
Literacy rate by Province
Achievements in education system
 Establishment of digital library in Pakistan.
 Promoted research and research publication.
 Today Pakistani universities are ranked among top 200
world’s universities.
 Four year undergraduate program introduced so that our
degrees are internationally recognized.
 Fifty one new universities and degree awarding institutes
have been established.
 The world’s largest scholarship program launched with joint
funding (HEC/USAID.
Problems in education system
 Lack of Proper Planning: Lack of proper planning
is the main problem in our education system . By
proper planning we can improve our education
system.
 Social constraints : It is important to realize that
the problems which hinder the provision of
education are not just due to issues of
management by government but some of them are
deeply rooted in the social and cultural orientation
of the people. Overcoming the latter is difficult and
would require a change in attitude of the people,
until then universal education is difficult to achieve.
Problems in education system
 Cramming : Cramming is stuffing of brain with material but it delivers
nothing(knowledge). We depend on cramming to get good grades in
exams but we don’t have knowledge about anything. Cramming is the
major problem of our education system that why students fail in practical
fields.
Problems in education system
 Technical education : Sufficient attention has not been paid to
the technical and vocational education in Pakistan . The
number of technical and vocational training institutes is not
sufficient and many are deprived of infrastructure , teachers
and tools for training .The population of a state is one of the
main elements of its national power . It can become an asset
once it is skilled . Unskilled population means more jobless
people on the country, which affected the national development
negatively .
 Gender Gap: Major factors hinder enrolment rates of girls
include poverty ,cultural constraints , illiteracy of parents and
parental concerns about safety and mobility of their daughters.
Enrolment of rural girls is 45% lower than of urban girls, while
for boys the difference is 10% only, showing that gender gap is
an important factor.
Problems in education system
 Untrained teachers: The teachers in the government
schools are not well-trained .Untrained teachers don’t know
how to deliver Knowledge. That’s why our educational
system depends on cramming.
 Solutions

 Proper planning is important for the betterment of a

education system in Pakistan.
 We need to focus on practical work instead of cramming .In
this way, we get more skills and knowledge and our
education system will be improved.
 More funding should be added by local government.
 An effective monitoring system for corruption in education
department.
 Career counseling for school level.
 Solution
 Parents should also be consulted towards their children.
 Two approaches for learning:
– Get education to earn only bread and butter.
– Get education for self learning and development.
 Mind set is needed to be changed of one’s who adopt
second approach.
Introduction of vision 2025
 Pakistan aims to become one of the top 25 economies
by 2025 and one of the top 10 economies by 2047;gov
has allocated more resources for education and health
minister of planning, development and reforms.
 Vision 2025 was enrolled out by PML-N government in
early 2014. this 12 years vision has seven pillars.
Elements of vision 2025
 Mission of HEC

 Pakistan Started with the establishment of Higher Education

commission in 2002. The Mission of HEC is to “Facilitate
Institutions of Higher Learning to serve as an Engine of
Socio-Economic Development of Pakistan”.
 Priorities Of HEC

 Research innovation and commercialization.

 Enhance equitable access to higher education.
 Excellence in leadership, governance and management.
 Increased quality with highest academic qualification.
 Planned ICT for education for 2017-25.
 Enhances quality of curricular content for all levels of
education offered.
 Financial management to sustain growth.
Un-sustainable development goals
 Vision 2025 also seeks to align with the UN’s Sustainable
Development Goals, with commitments to progress in:
 (1) No Poverty,
 (4) Quality Education,
 (5) Gender Equality,
 (8) Decent Work,
 (9) Industry, Innovation & Infrastructure and
 (13) Climate Action.
 ONE BELT ONE ROAD
 Notably, but not surprisingly, China’s One Belt One Road
(OBOR) initiative is explicitly referenced in the policy. OBOR
includes collaboration in education as an explicit dimension and
consequently it is referenced in the Higher Education Vision 2025
document as one mechanism by which to meet development
objectives and provide skilled employment.
MAJOR CHALLENGES
 It is a list of major challenges to HEC to achieve or
overcome. These include a new,
 Depoliticized process for recruitment of university leaders;
 Development of alternative sources of funding;
 Closer connection between academia and industry;
 Professionalization of administrative staff and an increase in
the number of academic staff with advance degrees.
 Action
Objective :B research innovation and commercialization
activities:

 Establish Offices of Research, Innovation &

Commercialization at 30 Tier I universities and 100 Tier II
universities.
 Targeted increases in research & development funding
Establish industrial and technology parks established in
each of the five provinces.
 Establish 100 new business and technology centers
 Direct 15 Tier I institutions to increase collaboration with
international sponsored research projects.
Fund the 7th phase of USAID and State Department
funded research projects in Science, Technology & Health
from 2017 – 2020.
 Enhance technology funding through agreements with
Korea, China, EU countries and Turkey for collaborative
Objective :C enhanced equitable access to higher
education
Activities:

 Establish new universities to increase access to higher

education.
 Enroll and graduate 200,000 students in postgraduate programs
 Increase capacity for teacher training programs  Increase
funding for existing tuition fee waiver and laptop distribution
schemes.
 Direct all institutions to raise philanthropic funds to provide
scholarships for disadvantaged students.
 Fund 7,000 scholarships for domestic PhDs during 2017-2021,
increasing to 9,000 during 2021 - 2025 Funding to support
increased enrolment in distance education programs.
Increase the number and quality of affiliated colleges
Development and implementation of a new student loan
program  Collection and analysis of enrolment data.
Objective :D excellence in leadership, governance
and management
activities :

 Establish 'Search Committees' to identify and appoint Vice

Chancellors of public universities.
 Establish a Committee to define revised standards and
structures for administrative staff at Tier I and Tier II
universities.
 Implement a standard management structure across the
sector with responsible officials for Academic Affairs, Student
Advising and Support Services, Budget Planning and
Finance, Research & Institutional Development.
 Strengthen institutional monitoring through Quality
Enhancement Cells at all public universities.
 Revision of the rules of affiliation of Tier III colleges with
universities to monitor and promote quality.
 Implement a higher education leadership programs.
Objective : E increased quality with highest
academic qualification
activities :
 Ensure that 40% of academic staff have PhDs.
 Increase total numbers of academic staff to service increased student enrolment
targets.
 Encourage successful current postgraduates to apply for scholarships for doctoral
programs
Allocate un-awarded PhD scholarships  Award scholarships in line with priority
subject list developed for the broader Government of Pakistan Vision 2025
document40.
Prepare 10,000 Pakistani scholars to complete their doctoral studies in ranked US
Land Grant universities over the next ten years.
 Implement scholarships for postgraduate study at Australia, China, European
countries, New Zealand, and South Korea.
 Develop split degree programs of collaborative study and research with partner
universities  Provide 500 scholarships for post-doctoral studies to established
scholars with international connections.
 Subsidize 6000 lecturers to complete domestic PhD programs during 2017 – 20.
 Use planned innovation infrastructure to develop knowledge exchange with partner
universities and international donors.
 Collaborate with provincial Departments of Education to prepare 100,000 school
teachers annually and improve the quality of school education.
Objective : F enhanced quality of curricular content for
all levels of qualification offered
activities:
 Replace all 1 & 2-year Bachelor degree programs with 4
year programs by 2018.
 Develop 2+2 courses with strong professional components
 Refinement of the National Curriculum Review Committee
process to respond more dynamically to changes in subject
expertise.
 Implement National Qualifications Framework consistent with
the Bologna.
Objective : g planned ict for education for 2017-25
activities:
 Provision of 300,000 internet enabled laptops to well- performing
students by 2019.
 Provide free WIFI to 94 public universities.
 Install security equipment at all Tier I universities and 64 Tier II
universities.
 Create 350 smart classrooms.
 Institutionalize a Learning Management System at 50 new
universities.
 Implement national cloud infrastructure.
 Upgrade Pakistan Education and Research Network (PERN)
telecommunications infrastructure.
 Implement Higher Education Management Information System
(HEMIS) at Tier I universities.
 Implement EDU Card service to conduct transactions and
access services on campuses at 10 Tier I universities per year.
 Objective : G planned ict for education for
2017-25
activities:
 Establish a Research & Development Centre with Huawei
Technologies in 2017-18.
 Support collaboration between academia and industry in the
development of high quality electronic devices.
 Establish an Office of Research, Innovation &
Commercialization Automation and Research Cluster
Management System to plan, monitor and evaluate the
output and performance of ORICs.
 Setup five IT academies and testing centers
 Pilot a Capacity Planning System at all public and private
universities.
 Objective : H financial management to sustain
growth
activities:

 Secure the required financial resources to achieve targets of

expansion and quality improvement.
 Request incremental increases to the revised funding
request of 1.4% of GDP for higher education.
 Direct HE leaders to identify and generate additional
sources of institutional revenue.
 Develop and implement college improvement plans
 Introduce a requirement for financial auditing at all
universities.
 Financial training for public university staff.
 SUMMARY

 The Higher Education Vision 2025 sets out an ambitious and

centrally-led plan for the development of the Pakistani higher
education sector that is designed to support the country’s
national objective to become the next ‘Asian Tiger’.
 This plan includes considerable reference to international
collaboration with a significant funding allocation for
overseas postgraduate scholarships. Most these appear to
have been allocated to the US, however further work is
required to fully plan and operationalize these commitments.
Work is ongoing with other countries. UKi shall work with
HEC and partners to identify and communicate any discrete
opportunities for the UK sector.