Description
Despite the enormous challenge of attaining the Education for All and UN Millennium Development Goal of universal primary education by 2015, Pakistan has taken up the challenge, as have many other developing countries of the Commonwealth. In this handbook for education policy-makers and practitioners, Pakistani educator Fareeha Zahar has identified and compiled good and promising practices which are working towards the achievement of universal primary education in her country. Policy-makers internationally will find that the approaches adopted in Pakistan have much to tell them about how to address similar problems in their own countries.
Contents
Abbreviations
Foreword
The Context: New Nation, Old Land
1. Universal Primary Education
Accelerating UPE
2. What Makes a Practice Promising?
3. Getting the Policy Right
Mixing Policy and Reform: Education Sector Reforms
Growing up with Hope: Educating Girls
Recognising the Private Sector
Creating Partnerships
4. Strategies that Work
Women Teachers
Free Textbooks
Urban Fellowship Programme
NWFP Teacher Training Programme
Whole School Improvement
5. Partnering for Quality
Cooperation for Advancement Rehabilitation & Education (CARE)
Aga Khan University – Institute for Educational Development
6. Equity Options
Overview
The Citizens Foundation
Khwendo Kor
7. Giving for Education
Indigenous Philanthropy
Expatriate Philanthropy
Developments in Literacy