On the 17th of January, Prime Minister Imran Khan said that investment in the technology sector was vital to create employment for the youth as well as improve the national economy. Four days later on the 21st of January, a damning report conducted by faculty at the Aga Khan University’s Institute for Educational Development found that more than 90 per cent of primary and lower-secondary students in Pakistan have only a weak or basic understanding of the mathematics and science they are required to learn.
Statements like the one made by the Prime Minister are nothing new. This government and governments before have regularly touted tech and information technology as the future of Pakistan and a way out of unemployment and the country’s economic woes. Yet the two most basic fundamentals to achieve success in the IT sector is a robust education system and widespread internet connectivity.
On the education front Pakistan is far behind. According to the earlier mentioned report, the average mathematics score was 27/100 in standardised tests for 15,000 students across 123 schools. The average science score was 34 out of 100. Only one per cent of students scored over 80 in either subject, thereby demonstrating what researchers called “excellent understanding”. Currently, Pakistan has the world’s second-highest number of out-of-school children (OOSC) with an estimated 22.8 million children aged 5-16 not attending school, representing 44 per cent of the total population in this...
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