Presentation
on
Reforms in
School Education, Punjab
31st December, 2013
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Sequence of Presentation
1. Vision
2. Major Functions
3. Organogram
•
School Education Department
•
Attached Departments / Autonomous bodies
•
Districts
4. School Education at a Glance
5. Provisions of Missing Facilities
6. Budgetary Allocations
Sequence of Presentation
7. Foreign Funding
•
World Bank
•
DFID
8. Reforms in School Education
9. Achievements
10.Challenges
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Vision
• To develop high quality human resource in
Punjab to meet the challenges of globalization
and needs of the knowledge economy, ethical
citizenry and social justice.
• To increase access, retention and completion of
quality education that fosters creativity, critical
thinking, teamwork and an entrepreneurial spirit
in addition to thorough content knowledge;
• To address gender and geographical disparities;
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Major Functions
1. Legislation, policy formulation and planning for:
(a) Primary education
(b) Elementary education
(c) Secondary and Higher Secondary Education
2. Regulatory policy concerning private sector schools
3. Development and supervision of curricula, syllabi,
textbooks and maintenance of standards of
education:
(a) Curricula and syllabi up to class XII.
(b) Production and publication of text books for class-I to XII.
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Major Functions
4. Staff development including:
(a) Pre-service and in-service teachers training
(b) Continuous professional development (CPD)
5. Monitoring and evaluation system:
(a) Distribution of free textbooks
(b) Development schemes
(c) Presence of teaching and non-teaching staff
(d) Up-dation of online-access information
(e) Redressal of public complaints
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Major Functions
6. Promotion of quality education through:
(a) Punjab education assessment system
(b) Student assessment and terminal examination of Grade-V
and VIII elementary education through Punjab
Examination Commission.
(c) Grant of scholarships
(d) Production and distribution of educational and scientific
films
7. Children libraries and libraries affiliated with Children
Library Complex
8. Promotion of sports in schools
9. Provision of compulsory and free education to all of
age 5-16 years
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Major Functions
10. The matters relating to the Punjab Daanish Schools
and Centers of Excellence
11. To promote quality education through publicprivate partnership through Punjab Education
Foundation.
12. The matters relating to the Punjab Teachers'
Foundation.
13. Budget, accounts and audit matters.
14. Purchase of stores and capital goods for the
department
15. Service matters except those entrusted to Services
and General Administration Department.
16. Administration of the laws and the rules framed
thereunder.
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Organogram of the Department
Secretary
School Education
Additional
Secretary (Education
Reforms)
Deputy
Secretaries
(01)
Section
Officers
(03)
Additional
Secretary
(Schools)
Deputy
Secretaries
(04)
Section
Officers
(10)
Additional
Secretary
(General)
Additional
Secretary
(Budget & Planning)
Deputy
Secretaries
(03)
Deputy
Secretaries
(01)
Section
Officers
(07)
Deputy
Director
(Monitoring)
(01)
Section
Officers
(06)
Assistant
Director
(02)
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Attached Departments / Autonomous Bodies
Attached
Departments
• Directorate of Staff
Development
• Children Library
Complex, Punjab
• Punjab Education
Assessment System
• Director Public
Instruction (SE), Punjab
• Director Public
Instruction (EE), Punjab
Autonomous
Bodies
• Punjab Textbook Board
• Punjab Curriculum
Authority
• Punjab Examination
Commission
• Punjab Education
Foundation
• Punjab Teachers
Foundation
• National Education
Equipment Centre
• Punjab Daanish Schools
and Centers of
Excellence Authority
• National Museum of
Science & Technology
• Center Model School,
Lower Mall
• PMIU– PESRP
Autonomous
Institutions
receiving grants
• Cadet College Hasan
Abdal
• Sadiq Public School
Bahwalpur
• Lawrence College Ghora
Gali
• Boys Scouts and Girls
Guide Associations .
• Cadet Colleges, Pasrur,
Chakwal and Okara
• APWA (All Pakistan
Women Association)
Districts
Secretary School
Education
36-EDO (Edu)
37-DEO
(SE)
37-DEO
(EE-M)
37 DEO
(EE-F)
High Schools
Higher secondary
schools
(Girls / Boys)
133-Dy. DEO
(EE-M)
133-Dy. DEO
(EE-F)
486-AEO
(M)
Boys Middle
Schools
Boys Primary
Schools
Girls Middle
Schools
486-AEO
(F)
Girls Primary
School
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SchoolEducation
Education
Glance
School
at at
a Glance
School Level
Schools
Higher Secondary
635
69,245
20,600
High
5,923
1,069,047
119,367
Middle
8,030
2,121,371
78,643
Primary
39,347
7,380,668
113,604
53,935
10,640,331 332,214
Total
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Enrolment Teachers
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Budgetary Allocations (2013-14)
(Billion Rs.)
Development
NonDevelopment
Total
School Education
15.500
15.699
31.199
Punjab Education
Foundation
7.500
-
7.500
Punjab Educational
Endowment Fund
2.000
-
2.000
Daanish Schools
3.000
-
3.000
-
165.000
165.000
28.000
180.699
208.699
Description
District
Governments
Grand Total
School Education at a Glance
S#
1
2
COMPONENT
Out of School Children
(5-9 Years)
Per Student Cost
(Per Year)
Student Teacher Ratio
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(STR)
STATUS
2.00 million
(source: Neilson Survey, 2012)
Average
(Rs. 14679)
(Year 2012)
Primary:
Elementary:
Secondary:
H. Secondary:
Average:
1:39
1:21
1:24
1:17
1:32
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Foreign Funding - Punjab Education
Sector Programme (Phase-II)
S#
1
Period
Development
Partners
World Bank
2
2012-15 DFID (2012-18)
3
CIDA (Yet to be
finalized)
Amount
US $ 350 million
£ 350.3 million
CA $ 19.3 million
Reforms in School
Education
Reforms (2008 to 2013)
S#
Initiative
Cost
(Billion Rs.)
Achievements
1
Provision of Missing
Facilities
19.96
10822 schools completed
2
Upgradation of
Schools
10.86
2452 schools
3
Free Textbooks
9.00
50 million students benefited.
4
Grant-in-Aid to School
Council
6.40
50,000 schools benefiting annually.
5
Quality Examination
and Assessment
2.20
7 million students examined in 5th
& 8th Class through Punjab
Examination Commission
6
Teachers’ Incentive
2.00
Monetary Rewards
Cont’d……
…… Cont’d
Reforms (2008 to 2013)
Cost
(Billion Rs.)
Achievements
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Public Private Partnership
through Punjab Education
Foundation
17.00
- Support to low cost private schools
- 3300 partner schools / 1.3 million
students in current financial year.
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In-Service and Pre-Service
Teachers Training.
8.90
400,000 Teachers trained
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Provision of IT Labs in High
Schools
5.00
4286 IT Labs established
S#
Initiative
10 Recruitment of Teachers
-
11 Provision of Girls stipends
5.06
About 81,000 teachers recruited.
0.4 M Girl Students in selected 16 Low
Literacy Districts
12 Transfer Policy
13 Rationalization Policy
Cont’d……
…… Cont’d
Achievements (2008 to 2013)
S#
Initiative
Cost
(Billion Rs.)
Achievements
7.00
14 Daanish Schools & 8 Centres of
Excellence established
14 Non-salary Budget
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Establishment of
Curriculum Authority 2012
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Daanish Schools and
Centres of Excellence
Provision of Missing Facilities
Cost of All Types of Missing Facilities
(All Girls and Boys Schools)
Type of Missing
Facilities
1 Classrooms
Student without
2
Furniture
76,034
Unit
Cost
0.790
Total Cost
(Rs. Million)
60,066.860
3,417,773
0.002
6,835.546
3 Boundary Wall
5,013
0.650
3,258.450
4 Toilet Block
1,950
0.200
390.000
5 Drinking Water
1,016
0.050
50.800
10,797
0.150
1619.550
S
#
6 Electricity
TOTAL
Quantity
72,221.210
Development Plan for 2013-14
(All girls schools in Punjab and boys schools
in 11 Southern Districts)
S#
Type of Missing
Facilities
Student without
Furniture
Quantity Unit Cost
Total Cost
(Rs. Million)
2181075
0.002
4,362.150
2 Boundary Wall
2,835
0.650
1,842.750
3 Toilet Block
1,252
0.200
250.400
764
0.050
38.200
8,092
0.150
1,213.800
1
4 Drinking Water
5 Electricity
Total
7,707.300
Strengthening of School Councils
• Composition
– Minimum 9, maximum 17
– Head Teachers + Teachers + Brother or Sister of
student above 18 years of age + Parents + Notables
of area and etc.
• Annual Grant in Aid
– Rs. 20,000 for Primary School
– Rs. 50,000 for Middle School
• ICT Based Capacity Building
– 50% schools of five districts (Attock, Chiniot, Lodhran,
Sargodha and Jhelum
Per Capita Financing (PCF) Formula
(Non-Salary School Based Budget)
• Components
–
–
–
–
–
Fixed School Allocation
Student retention premium
Basic student entitlement
Furniture need
Building operations
• 2013-14 (9-Districts)
– Chakwal, Chiniot, Khanewal, Muzaffargarh, Nankana,
Okara, Sargodha, Sialkot, R.Y. Khan
– Rs. 3.5 Billion allocation for NSB in CFY
• 2014-15 (18-Districts)
• 2015-16 (36-Districts)
Rationalization of Teaching Staff
• Rationalization policy has been framed
• Re-allocation of teaching staff from overstaffed
to understaffed schools
• Attock, Khushab and Lodhran
selected in the first phase
have
been
• To achieve Teacher student ratio at all levels
Transfer of Teaching Staff on Merit
• New Transfer policy 2013
• Marks criteria for transfers (Academic results 40,
Service in Far Flung area 20, Seniority 10,
Wedlocks basis 15, Compassionate grounds 15)
• Transfer shall be made only against a vacant
post
• No transfer in first three years for contract
teachers
• No transfer in case of single teacher, science
teacher, I.T. Teacher and head teacher without
substitutes
Creation of Standardized
Assessment System
• Establishment
of
Punjab
Examination
Commission as an Autonomous Body through an
Act of Parliament in 2010.
• Design and conduct of annual examination at
Grade 5 and 8.
• Identification of areas of improvement through
research and analysis.
• 2.74 Million students tested in year 2013.
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Punjab Education Foundation (PEF)
Previous Programs – 2009-2012 (4 Years)
Name of Programs
No. of Schools
No. of Students
FAS
2154
1.10 Million
EVS
810
0.14 Million
NSP
428
0.059 Million
Total
3392
1.299 Million
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Current Expansion Programs 2013-2018
(targets for 5 Years)
Name of Programs
No. of Students
FAS
1.30 Million
EVS
0.65 Million
NSP
0.26 Million
Total
2.21 Million
Recruitment of Teachers
• 81,000 Teachers have been recruited on merit
• Entry test has been made mandatory from 2013
under Recruitment Policy 2013 approved by CM
• For recruitment of teachers against 29,822 posts
NTS (National Testing Service) has been hired
through open bidding
• For quality assurance of the test, a firm (IER)
has been hired
• Recruitment tests have been conducted by NTS
in all districts of Punjab
Daanish Schools
• Daanish
schools
cater
to
the
overall
development of students belonging to the
marginalized
emphasis
on
sections
of
academics,
the
society
sports,
with
physical
education mixed with social / cultural activities.
Daanish Schools
S# School Name
Boys
Girls
Total
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
406
404
414
214
207
152
244
363
364
366
190
184
189
210
769
768
780
404
391
341
454
3907
Chishtian
Hasilpur
Rahim Yar Khan
Mianwali
Attock
D.G.Khan
Rajanpur
Total
Stipend to Girls Students
•
Original stipend program started since 2004
– 3,90,000 students benefit from this program annually
– Rs 1.5 billion per year for secondary school female students in
16 low literacy districts on basis of 80% attendance
•
Suplemental stipend pilot project ) 68 schools of District
Bhakkar and Kasur) in June 2013
– About 10,500 girls per quarter benefitting from this pilot progarm.
– An enhanced amount of Rs 900/- for class 6-8 students and Rs.
1200/- for class 9-10 students are delivered to eligible students
per quarter.
• Branchless banking pilot project (BBPP) in Oct 2013
– 44 schools in 3 districts (Okara, Muzaffargarh and Khanewal)
selected for the pilot project
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Achievements
• Student Attendance has surged to 92% from the
baseline of 82.8 % since September 2011.
• Teacher presence has surged to above 90% from the
baseline of 80.7 % since September 2011, which is the
highest in the region.
• Functioning of Facilities are 91.6% by May 2013 from
the baseline of 68.9 % since September 2011.
• Administrative Visits are at above the target i.e 95.4%
whereas target is 90%.
• Data collection and third party validation has also
reached above 96% all over the Punjab, which itself is a
record high.
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Challenges
• Establishment of District Education Authority .
• Enrolment, retention and quality.
• Provisions of Missing Facilities, Rehabilitation of
Dangerous
Buildings
and
Flood
Affected
Schools, IT Labs at Elementary & Secondary
level.
• Regulatory Framework for Private Schools.
Cont’d……
…… Cont’d
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Challenges
• Rationalization of Teachers as per standard
Student Teacher Ratio (STR) and Workload.
• Timely releases of allocated funds.
• Role of Teachers Unions
• Transfer of Teaching staff on merit
• To ensure teacher presence in class
• To motivate teachers for retention of students
and quality education
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