About 33 percent of Balochistan's children aged 6 to 16 still remain out of school and student competency in learning English, Arithmetic and Languages are deplorable. This was said in a survey report launched here on Thursday on Status of Education in Balochistan during year 2014 which was compiled by non-governmental organisation Annual Status of Education Reporter (ASER) Pakistan.
Director Idara-e-Taleem-o-Aagahi, Baela Raza Jameel said that the ASER survey has been based on the information of 60,535 children of age 3 to 16 years including 39 percent girls by volunteer citizens who personally visited 18,536 households in 947 villages during year 2014.
She said that according to the survey report, student competency in learning English, Arithmetic and Languages are deplorable including 67 of the children from Class V cannot read Class II level text in Urdu. She said boys are outperforming girls in literacy in rural Balochistan as many as 34 percent of boys were found able to read at least sentences in Urdu as compared to 23 percent girls, adding that for Arithmetic, 29 percent of Class V boys were able to do Class II level subtraction as compared to only 19 percent of Class V girls.
She said, "The ASER report highlights that 35 percent teachers in private schools are graduate in comparison to 32 percent in government schools and the findings have found 51 percent of government and 30 percent of private schools imparting multi-grade teaching."
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