Education System in Pakistan, Developing Quality Assurance Model in Govt. Schools, Govt Schools in Pakistan, Equality or Equity, Gender awareness issues in secondary schools in Pakistan

1. Topic: Developing Quality Assurance Model in Govt. Schools
Title:
Equality or Equity,
Gender awareness issues in secondary schools in Pakistan
Journal:
International Journal of Educational Development (Elsevier)
Presented By: Mr. ABBAS ALI
Department of Management Sciences
Comsats Institute of Information and Technology, Attock

2. About Writers
 Anjum Halai
 Institute for Educational Development,
Aga Khan University, PO Box 13688,
Karachi 75950, Pakistan.
 Contact
Tel.: +92 21 634 7611
fax: +92 21 634 7616
E-mail address:
anjum.halai@aku.edu.
 Published online: 19 Oct 2010.

3. Overview
 Introduction
 Background and context
 Gender equity and social justice in education
 A professional development intervention
 Gender awareness in schools and classrooms
 Secondary schools in Taluka Mirpur Sakro: unequal access

4. Introduction
 Focus of this Paper
 According to the information provided in the latest
UNESCO EFA Global (UNESCO, 2010, pp.346–347).
 Monitoring Report, in South and West Asia there are 57 million more
children in school in 2007 than in 1999.
Era 1999 2007
Net Enrolment Ratio 74% 86%
Gender parity index 0.84 0.96
Children out of School 39 million 18 million
% of Girls 63% 58%

5. Background and Context
 Ministry of Women’s Development, 2010
Ministry of Women’s Development of the government of
Pakistan the progress is slow and deep inequities persist.
 Duties and Responsibilities
District government is responsible for the improvement of
governance and delivery of service through the office of the Executive
District Officer Education (EDO-E)
 No Participation in International Level Competitions
Pakistan is neither a participant in the Trends in International
Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS), conducted by the
International Association for the Evaluation of Educational
Achievement (IEA),

6. Gender equity and social justice in education
 Social Justice in Education Quality
 Macro-Level Education Policy
 Micro-Level Classroom
 A Professional Development Intervention
 Key Elements
 Developing school profiles
information of school, infrastructure, no of students & teachers and teacher qualification
 Teacher’ ‘‘self-inventory’’ adapted from Mason (2002)
 School-based workshops (12 workshops per school)
 Annual workshops (Taluka Level)

7. Gender awareness in schools and classrooms
 Taluka Mirpur Sakro
Case of a Rural district in Pakistan
 No secondary school for girls in the village.
 In Boys School, 8 girls in both class IX and class X, sitting in the
same classroom as the boys.
 Officials explained that they had requested for up gradation of school
but requisition is still on table.
 Girls Exempted:
School assembly, physical training and exercise sessions and any
school event, allowed to come late and only participate in the
academic work.
 This was also for pragmatic reasons as there were only male toilets in
the school.

8. Thank You