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* Punjab tops the list with 115,311 schools
* ICT has 1,348 institutions — 44% public, 56% private
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has 245,682 educational institutions, out of which 164,579 (67 percent) are in the public sector and 81,103 (33 percent) are private sector institutions, according to a National Education Census (NEC) report. The Ministry of Education, Academy of Educational Planning and Management (AEPAM) and the Federal Bureau of Statistics (FBS) jointly conducted the census in 2005. Data was collected from the entire country including FATA, the Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT), the Northern Areas and Azad Jammu and Kashmir. All types of educational institutions, including government, private and madrassas, were visited and enumerators recruited particularly for the NEC census also collected information via questionnaires. The census indicated that out of the total, 115,311 (47 percent) were in Punjab out of which 66,770 (58 percent) were public schools and 48,541 (42 percent) were private institutions. Sindh has 59,312 (24 percent) schools out of which 46,738 (about 79 percent) were public and 12,574 (21 percent) were private institutions. 40,706 institutions (17 percent) were in NWFP, out of which 29,430 (72 percent) were public and 11,276 (28 percent) were private institutions. In Balochistan, there were 11,492 (4.7 percent) institutions of which 9,742 (about 85 percent) were public and 1,750 (15 percent) were private sector institutions.
In ICT, there were 1,348 (0.5 percent) institutions. Out of this 598 (44 percent) were public and 750 (56 percent) were private institutions. In FATA, there were 5,344 (2.2 percent) institutions of which 4,704 (88 percent) were public and 640 (12 percent) were private institutions. In the Federally Administered Northern Area, there were 4,366 (1.8 percent) institutions out of which 1,505 (34.5) percent) were public and 2,861 (65.5 percent) were private. In Azad Jammu and Kashmir, there were 7,803 (3.2 percent) institutions out of which 5,092 (65.3 percent) were public and 2,711 (34.7 percent) were private institutions.
The report also said that private sector institutions were growing rapidly in Pakistan, from 36,096 institutions in 1999-2000 to 81,103 in 2005, an annual average increase of 25 percent.
Jan 10, 2007: The Punjab government intends to launch “action-oriented” projects to address the problem of bonded labour and is working out proposals in this regard, Labour and Human Resource secretary Hassan Nawaz Tarar told “A Consultative Workshop on Bonded Labour” at the Labour Department office. He said the proposals included issuing National Identity Cards to the brick kiln workers, establishment of non-formal literacy and skill training centres at brick kilns, pilot testing of brick-making technologies to check their effectiveness, and working out financial mechanisms for facilitating workers and employers and helping them adopt them. The Punjab government also wanted to launch publicity campaigns to educate people about the issue. (Lahore)
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