Dear sir,
please find attached and bellow the English and URDU press
release of FAFEN,s schools monitoring report to publish in your
esteemed news papers.
Regards
Abdul Razzaq chishti
Media officer
Free and fair election net work
Islamabad ,pakistasn.
0923215693128
Good student-to-teacher ratios observed in 103 government schools
A report based on the monitoring of 147 girls' primary schools in 89
districts nationwide in October 2011
ISLAMABAD, November 28: Good student-to-teacher ratios were observed
in 103 out of 147 state-run girls' primary schools monitored
nationwide in October but continue to lack essential facilities,
according to a report released by the Free and Fair Election Network
(FAFEN) on Monday.
The report said in 67 schools in Punjab, on average, one teacher was
available to 34 students, and in 36 schools in Sindh, on average, one
teacher was available to 27 students. However, on average, 40 students
were the responsibility of one teacher in 29 schools in Khyber
Pakhtunkhwa (KP), 41 in 12 schools in Balochistan and 72 in three
schools in FATA.
FAFEN Governance Monitors visited 147 schools in 89 districts
nationwide – 67 of them in 30 districts in Punjab, 36 in 23 districts
in Sindh, 29 in 21 districts in KP, 12 in as many districts in
Balochistan and three in as many agencies in FATA.
Attendance of teachers was between 76% and 100% at 77% of the
monitored schools while the same attendance ratio was maintained by
students at 63% schools. Nationwide, 41 teaching posts were vacant in
137 monitored schools which shared this information.
With regard to nonteaching staff, 131 schools did not have sanitary
workers. However, 132 were found to be clean, hinting they were
cleaned by the students themselves. Eighty-nine schools did not have
security guards while 17 were without boundary walls.
The report at least 80% schools out of the 147 monitored did not have
staff-rooms for teachers. There were no desks and chairs for students
in 48% of the schools while a fifth didn't have any for teachers.
Nineteen schools nationwide lacked black/white boards and 44% did not
have arrangements for clean drinking water for students. Moreover,
despite the acknowledged importance of physical education and exercise
for both girls and boys, two-thirds of the monitored schools lacked
playgrounds for students.
Forty schools nationwide were without electricity while 67% of those
in Balochistan, at least 30% in Punjab and Sindh and 17% in KP did not
have fans. In addition, 23 schools were not well-lit. In the absence
of electricity it is especially important that classrooms be well lit.
The report said greater government oversight is needed to monitor and
rectify lack of crucial non-teaching staff like security guards and
other considerations of physical infrastructure. Elected
representatives and governments officials made 92 visits to 147
schools in the past three months.
Two visits were made by MNAs, both to schools in Punjab, while one was
made by an MPA, also in the same province. Other elected
representatives (ex-nazims etc) made five visits, all in Punjab. The
Executive District Officers/Education made 23 visits. Other government
officials made 61 visits.
Tariq Khattak, Islamabad, Pakistan.
GSM = 0300-9599007 and 0333-9599007
Email: Tariqgulkhattak@gmail.com
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