Private schooling succeeds in Pakistan
My colleague Jishnu Das sends word of two new World Bank policy papers he's coauthored on public and private schools in Pakistan. I'm pleased to see that their results mirror similar work from India (by researchers James Tooley and Pauline Dixon). The authors find that, contrary to perceptions, the average private school is cheap and heavily used even among the poor.
- "A dime a day: the possibilities and limits of private schooling in Pakistan" discusses the rapid increase of private schools and the economics of their operations. The average fee of a rural private school in Pakistan is, you guessed it, less than a dime a day.
- "Learning levels and gaps in Pakistan" reports on achievement tests of over 14,000 children in 800 rural public and private schools. In the first large-scale testing exercise in rural private schools in Pakistan, results show that the learning gap between rich and poor is dwarved by that between public and private schools.
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The private schools in Pakistan are giving good results in small self budget without support of Govt of Pakistan and still no one is coming to appreciate them. If Govt can't help them but can stop to Income tax dept, excise dept, property tax etc they are giving distrubance.
A small chart of budget giving below:
no of student Monthly fee Total
300 450 135000
300 400 120000
300 300 90000
300 200 60000
In this budget how they can pay good salary to teaching staff, admin staff, building rent, Utilities etc plus govt dept need all tax.
What ever this industry gonna give good future to Pakistan. Govt school have good building and good salary but poor result.
Posted by: Zafar | Jun 30, 2009 3:46:18 PM