FINAL PRESENTATION OF SOCIOLOGY

GROUP MEMBERS:

* SAUD KAMAL* RAMSHA WASEEM* BAKHTAWAR KHALID* SYED TAHA ALI*MUHAMMAD SHAHERYAR

MAIN PROBLEMS OF PAKISTAN

* Poverty

* Corruption

ILLITERACYThe state of not knowing how to read or write.

CAUSES OF ILLITERACY IN PAKISTAN:

* Limited budget.* Standard of education.* Lack of special skilled textbook writers.* Poor follow up of programmes.* Over-crowded classrooms.* Wadera system.* Teacher behavior.

EFFECTS OF ILLITERACY:1) Overpopulation2) Unskilled labour.3) Political instability.4) Poor use of natural resources.5) Heavy international debts.6) Child labour.7) Afraid from education.

TYPES OF EDUCATION IN PAKISTAN.1. FORMAL EDUCATION

2. INFORMAL EDUCATION

FORMAL EDUCATION:

Formal learning, normally delivered by trained teachers in a systematic way within a school. It is a well civilized way of teaching and learning. But most of people couldn't get formal education because the higher schools fees are not affordable for them.

INFORMAL EDUCATION:Informal education is a general term for education outside of a standard school setting. The village people and others who can’t afford the school fees admit their children in these informal education in which the teachers are even not well qualified.

GOVERNMENT ROLEThe political leaders are not interested in education. The yearly budget for education should be around 10%. If u look at russia they did the same. They increased their education budget to 10-15% approx per annum. If we increase our educational yearly budget a great change can be observed. The coming generation will make the Pakistan at top. Our ssc and f.sc system is also not good . No proper checking is done. Due to which intelligent students get less marks and weak students get high marks. May Allah guide our leaders on right path. Ameen.

RATE OF ILLITERACY INPAKISTAN

Promoting Gender Equality and Women Empowerment. It is aimed at eliminating gender disparity in primary and secondary education by 2005 and in all levels of education not later than 2015. There is a stark disparity between male and female literacy rates. The national literacy rate of male was 71% while that of female was 48% in 2012-13. Provinces reported the same gender disparity. Punjab literacy rate in male was 71% and for females it was 54%. In Sindh literacy rate in male was 72% and female 47%, in KPK male 70% and females 35%, while in Balochistan male 62% and female 23%.

LITERATURE REVIEWThere are two approaches to acquiring education: First, which is being followed by many in Pakistan is to get education to earn bread and butter. The second approach is to get education for the sake of personal development and learning. This approach is followed by affluent and economically stable people who send their children to private schools and abroad for education. The problem arises when non-affluent families send their children to private schools, and universities. This aspiration for sending children for higher education is wrong, because the country does not need managers and officers only. There are several other jobs where people are needed. Hence the mindset of sending one’s children to university only for becoming officers and managers needs to be changed.

HYPOTHESIS“THE MORE ILLITERACY, THE MORE ECONOMIC INSTABILITY IN COUNTRY”

SOLUTIONS TO OVERCOME THEILLITERACY RATE:

* Budget for education should be increased.* Schools should be provided in every village of Pakistan.* Available schools should be utilized for education only.* Education should be compulsory for all upto 12th students.* Salaries of teachers should be increased so that people can join this profession easily.

CONCLUSIONThe reforms required in the education system of Pakistan cannot be done by the government alone, public-private participation and a mix of formal as well as non-formal education can pull out majority of country’s population from illiteracy. Similarly, to make the youth of the country an asset, attention should also be paid to vocational and technical training and do awareness programs.