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Despite these successes, there is a large policy implementation gap. Thus, according to the last available estimates in the public domain, 25.5% of schools are RTE compliant in terms of meeting the entire set of infrastructure norms based on UDISE+ 2019-20; Compliance rates have ranged between 63.6% (Punjab) and a mere 1.3% in Meghalaya.
The right to education has been recognized as a human right in a number of international conventions, including the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights which recognizes a right to free, primary education for all, an obligation to develop secondary education accessible to all with the progressive introduction of free secondary education, as well as an obligation to ...
[33] [35] In 2014, Pakistan Medical and Dental Council introduced a gender-based admission policy, restricting women to 50% of available seats (based on the gender ratios in general population). [ 36 ] [ 37 ] This quota was challenged and subsequently deemed unconstitutional (and discriminatory) by Lahore High Court.
UET Peshawar is a public university run by the provincial government. Admissions to the university depend on whether the applicants live in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province. There are some quota categories that would enable students from the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) and other provinces of Pakistan to enroll.
Pakistan Vision 2025 is a set of goals for social, economic, security, and governance developments outlined by the government of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan to be achieved by 2025. The overall goal is for Pakistan to become an upper-middle income country by 2025 and to eventually become one of the top ten economies in the world by 2047 ...
ECAT is widely considered as most difficult entrance test of any university in Pakistan, where only around 1-2% candidates are able to score 50% or above marks. In ECAT-2021, the average score was only 73 out of 400 (18.25%), lowest since the test started in 1998.
Literacy in Pakistan is a key for social-economic progress. The literacy rate in Pakistan has seen gradual improvement over the past few decades, but it remains a significant challenge. According to recent data, the overall literacy rate in Pakistan is estimated to be around 60-65%, [1] with notable gender disparities. The literacy rate for ...
They then take admission to college, which is the name for senior secondary consisting of grade 10 (age 15–16), year 11 and grade 11 (age 16–17), year 12. In the Cambridge system, standard 1 to standard 4 is the junior section, standard 5 to 7 is the junior secondary section, and from standard 8 to 10 is the beginning of high school.