The Aga Khan Education Service, Pakistan (AKESP) is organising a seminar on quality advancement through institutional development (QuAID) at the Carlton Hotel, Karachi on Saturday.
Sindh Education Secretary Ghulam Ali Pasha will be the chief guest at the seminar, a press release issued here on Friday said.
Keynote speakers among others include Babar Ali, former minister for education, economic affairs and planning and adviser to the board of governors, LUMS and Dr Qadeer Baig from NGO Resource Centre.
Participants of the seminar will include policy-makers from federal, provincial and district levels in the government, researchers and practitioners from both the public and private sectors and representatives of NGOs and schools.
The harsh realities and prevailing bad conditions of the public and private schools in Pakistan have led to the initiation of the project and the purpose of this seminar is to explore ways of bringing about sustainable and qualitative changes in private schooling through quality improvement and institutional development.
Aga Khan Education Service, Pakistan is now beginning to work with 50 private, 30 public and 23 community schools in Sindh for their QuAID project with the support of Education Sector Reform Assistance (ESRA) Programme Policy Component.
Aga Khan Education Service, Pakistan, an institution of the Aga Khan Development Network, was among the earliest of the non-governmental education providers in Pakistan. The first school of AKES, P was established in 1905 in Gwadar, Balochistan.
Now AKES, P operates 187 schools, four hostels and facilitates nearly 200 community-based educational initiatives spread across all the four provinces and Northern Areas of Pakistan.
These institutions provide educational access to approximately 50,000 students, 75 percent of whom are in the rural areas.
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