Abstract
Education is a sustained march of human society towards high
pedestals of civilization, and determines true destiny of a
nation, striving amid hard pursuits for survival. Education is
of different types depending upon the needs and demands, and
resources available in a country. Owing to meager resources,
and, the growing demands for education, especially in the
developing countries; the governments alone are unable to
fulfill the educational needs of the whole population
adequately. Therefore, the private sector has entered in the
education sector to help achieve the national targets set in a
country. Although, private schools were nationalized in 1972
in Pakistan, the subsequent National Education Policies
adopted in 1979, 1992-2002 and 1998-2010 have provisions
to involving private sector in the educational development and
delivery system in the country. This paper describes the
temporal expansion of private public schools in Khyber
Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province of Pakistan and evaluates the
same in Peshawar, the capital city as a case study, in terms of
selected variables vis a vis the existing education policy. Data
for the study was obtained from field survey using
questionnaires, EMIS office of the Education Department, KP,
research reports, books and internet. The study shows
mushrooming growth of private public schools and greater
increase in number of students in the province in general, and
Peshawar in particular during 1998-2010. Despite
progressive contribution in education, a high proportion of
private schools were found without the essential infrastructure
for students’ entertainment and recreation. The policy
imperatives provided to regulate activities and functioning of
the private sector need urgent implementation to improve
education quality and control the tendency of exploitation by
the private education sector.
Zulfiqar Ali, Arshad Ali, Fazal Ghani. (2015) Expansion of Private Public Schools in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Policy Imperatives: A Case Study of Peshawar, The Dialogue, Volume 10, Issue 4.
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