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The education system in Pakistan [5] is generally divided into six levels: preschool (for the age from 3 to 5 years), primary (years one to five), middle (years six to eight), secondary (years nine and ten, leading to the Secondary School Certificate or SSC), intermediate (years eleven and twelve, leading to a Higher Secondary School ...
This publication describes the key issues facing the school education system in Pakistan, highlights the challenges, and suggests some possible directions for reform—with a focus on two provinces: Sindh and Punjab.
Pakistan’s education system is distributed into four level of educations: 1) Elementary education; 2) Secondary education; 3) Higher secondary education; 4) Tertiary education. Free primary education is a constitutional right and is compulsory in every province except Balochistan.
31 lip 2020 · This chapter provides an overview of the school education system in Pakistan, situating it in the historical and policy context with a focus on access and equity. The first section traces the national policy level commitments to provision of universal school education.
In Pakistan, the education system adopted from colonial authorities has been described as one of the most underdeveloped in the world. Barely 60% of children complete grades 1 to 5 at primary school, despite three years of play group, nursery and kindergarten pre-school to prepare them.
According to ISCED97, secondary education is divided into two levels: lower secondary (Grade 6-8) and upper secondary (Grade 9-12). In the case of Pakistan, middle school (Grade 6-8)1 corresponds to the former while Grade 9-10 (Matriculation) is considered to be Secondary.
This chapter describes the school education system in Pakistan and provides insights into issues of access, expansion, and equity in the specific sociocultural and language context of the country.
