ASER PAKISTAN ASER - The Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) is a survey of the quality of education. ASER seeks to fill a gap in educational data by looking to provide a reliable set of data at the national level, that is comprehensive and, at the same time, easy to understand. The survey’s stated objectives are three fold:  To get reliable estimates of the status of children’s schooling and basic learning (reading and arithmetic level)  To measure the change in these basic learning and school statistics from last year  To interpret these results and use them to affect policy decisions at various levels.

Scale & Scope of Survey Coverage : In all five provinces i.e. in Sindh, Balochistan, Punjab, Pakhton Khawa, Gilgit Baltistan, FATA and AJK. Only rural areas will be sampled. Phase I : Year I 2010 – 30 districts across Pakistan Phase II: Year II 2011 – 70 districts across Pakistan Phase III : Years III, IV, V all districts across Pakistan (138 districts) Sample: 600 households per district. Two-stage sample, stratified in the first stage. Obtained by selecting 30 villages per district & 20 households per village. Villages will be selected randomly using the village directory of the latest Census. The Probability Proportional to Size Sampling (PPS) technique will be adopted as an appropriate one when the sampling units are of different sizes. Focus on nuances between public and private. In each village profile of 1 govt. and 1 private school collected and gender

ASER Pakistan – the Architecture District Level 30 Villages per district National Level SAFED Team Collaborating Partner Organizations (Master Trainers MT) & Voluntaries Voluntary Surveyors (VSs) (CBOs, NGOs, Colleges, Universities) Provincial Level 2008: 11 District s 2010: 32 Districts 2011: 70 Districts = All Districts Chief Collaborating Partners (CCP) External Collaborator (ASER India, PCE) Village Level 20 Houses per Village

58 % Male and 42% female

Access – Children (6-16 Years) School Enrollment and Out of School Children First time Use of Age Band 6-10 years according to NEP 2009 %Children In Different Types Of Schools% Out of School Total Age Group Govt.Pvt.MadrasahOthers Never Enrolled Drop- out Total By Type

15% 32% 35% 6% 5% 3% 15% Over all = 20% Out of School Children (Age 6-16 years)

Access – Children (6-16 Years) School Enrollment and Out of School Children

Enrollment and Out of School Children (Age 6-16 years) Proportionately More Girls in Private Schools.. Households do pay for Girls’ Education! Echoing trends of GMR..slightly more Girls are out of school than boys … up to age 13

Access – Children (6-16 years) Gender Gaps

Access – Children (6-10 Years) Gender Gaps

Access – Children (3-5 Years) School Enrollment and Out of School Children Age GroupGovt.PrivateMadrasahOthers Out of school (%) Total Total By Type EFA/NPA target = 50% enrollment by 2015 In PAKISTAN it is QUALITY as key challenges with hardly any teachers/ Training on ECE or infrastructure in govt. schools - encouraging early drop outs !

The EFA National Plan of Action Target 50% by Are we almost there ? But what is the quality of access and learning ? Children in Pre School (Age 3-5 years) Over all = 45% 33% 31% 48% 64% 73% 68% 52%

Access – Children (3-5 Years) School Enrollment and Out of School Children

Class-wise Enrollment Gender GAP Diminishing return.. Disappearing children adding to the out of school stock

Private Tuition by School Type School/ Class Govt.6.6%7.1%8.0%9.3%10.8%10.7%11.7%16.4%21.8%17.9% Pvt.20.8%26.1%25.3%28.6%28.9%28.6%26.2%29.7%31.5%26.7%

22% 5% 6% 12% 9% 28% 9% Over all = 14% Paid Tuition (Govt. & Private Schools)

Learning Levels

Learning Levels (Government and Private) not controlled for differences in learning

Learning Levels- Gender Gaps

Learning Levels Out of School Children - Opportunity for Second Chance Programs Children in schools when not learning well are at risk of dropping out throughout the school cycle.. Adding to the pool of OOSC!

Attendance

Water Facility

Toilet Facility

School Grants School Funds Grants received by school Government SchoolPrivate School Primary (1-5) Elementary (1-8) High (1-10) OtherPrimary (1-5) Elementary (1-8) High (1-10) Othe r No. of school received any grant Average amount of Grant

Mothers' Literacy

Upcoming Policy Briefs Comparisons Across Provinces Gender ECE Enrollment trends by gender Education provision; Public ; private ; madrassahs and others Learning Levels by Gender Learning Levels by Public and Private Learning Gaps Public & Private controlling for differences – regressions Tuitions – public and private Out of School Children – policy implications Governance - Attendance of Students & Teachers – Public and Private Facilities in Public and Private Schools Mothers Education /Literacy

Advocacy & ASER Pakistan A key objective of ASER Pakistan 2010 is Advocacy for influencing Policies and resourcing of education at multiple levels – Village Level – District Level – Provincial level – National Level – International

Multi-Level Advocacy- Policy Data Village /Local - People are demanding this. How did we do/When will we know District Govt./ media, constituencies and Provincial Govt/Parliamentary committees/media/ roundtables National All of Provincial and Development Partners Launch at the Planning Commission 2011 Influence /Reports Economic Survey/ PSLMs/NEAS Round Tables pre and post ASER e.g. learning and tuitions – Mark Bray’s Book on Shadow Education just released in Urdu International - – This is being undertaken at two levels – UKFIET has accepted an abstract on Citizens Led Initiatives in Educational Governance for the 11 th UKFIET INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT Sept 2011: Global Challenges for Education: Economics, Environment and Emergency, Oxford, UK (Elaborated below). – Influencing the Global Monitoring Report Teams UNESCO and FTI teams to include sections on citizen led initiatives on quality education to report on ASER Pakistan/ASER India and UWEZO East Africa Currently ITA/SAFED does not have funding for the UK FIET conference – needs mobilization

Institutional Strengthening of ASER Pakistan Agreeing on critical skills for ASER Pakistan at the level of: a) Institutional Strengthening of parent and partner institutions for and b) technical core team members to be called ASER Associates, ideally there should be at least two per district. A continuous formal engagement with ASER Centre India for upgrading skills and raising key questions /concerns for strengthening of the ASER Core Team in Pakistan Defining and preparing a list of ASER Core Team members as ASER Associates Pakistan. Like ASER Centre India there needs to be an ASER Centre Pakistan Capacity Building Trainings by Dr. Monazza Aslam - STATA – A Statistical Data Analysis Tool, Training by Dr. Monazza Aslam on.. August 2011

Partnerships for ASER Pakistan 2011 Rs. 300,000 per district including training; survey and basic dissemination ASER 2011 and onwards in a consortium mode many supporters can do this by district In 2011 establishment of ASER Centre Pakistan to train 2 ASER associates per district through certification across Pakistan - 60 day training and 40 days implementation - multiplying capacity A citizen led sequel 16 weeks CHALO PARHO BARHO to improve literacy and numeracy levels classes 1-5- Sept- Jan each year to be measured by ASER. Rs. 100 per learner Second Chance Learners Program in the design phase for catching up and reintegrating drop outs OPEN CALL FOR PARTNERS Need Partners and Many Players

Challenges/ Issues Sustainability of Programme uptill 2015 ASER Centre Pakistan - Scaling up of ASER Funding with Local Partners – Limited Culture Skilled work force at Field level with Local partners Technical experts without funding in ASER Pakistan Secretariat at SAFED. Rigorous Policy Advocacy Data Center Managment -Engagement of Individual Researcher on ASER DATA

Contact – ASER 2011 Please Contact : ASER Pakistan 2008 and 2010 Full reports can be downloaded from our website: LAHOREISLAMABAD Mr. Imtiaz A Nizami Cell # Mr. Waqas Bajwa , Cell #

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