Islamabad: Lack of proper infrastructure and high dropout rates has made Pakistan a nation of school dropouts, Pakistan’s education minister Javed Ashraf Qazi said.
According to Qazi, 45 per cent of Pakistani students quit going to school at some stage.
"Over the years, we have failed to provide basic facilities at school level which is one of the factors behind the increasing rate of dropouts," Pakistan-based daily Dawn quoted the minister as saying at a national conference on the state of education in the country.
Of all the children in the country, 40 per cent do not attend school or have no school to go, Qazi said.
The other key factors responsible for the less than 50 per cent literacy rate in the country were lack of teachers and training facilities.
"A teacher gets less pay than a domestic servant. It has become the profession of leftovers. We have to invest in the education sector,” Qazi said.
Over 20,000 schools in Punjab have no water, latrines or proper classrooms etc. "Almost the same number of schools in other provinces also suffer these problems, and at the end of the day only two per cent students join universities. We have to take stock of things, through a consultative process. The conference is part of the efforts the government is making to revamp entire education system in the country," he said.
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