[Dawn] ISLAMABAD: Around 1.8 million children, nearly a tenth of all enrolled students in Pakistain, study in religious seminaries, according to a report launched by the Ministry of Federal Education and Professional Training on Tuesday.
| The report also highlighted that around 35 per cent schools in the country, which don’t have clean drinking facility, 31 schools don’t have toilets and 41 per cent schools don’t have electricity. |
The Pakistain Education Statistics 2013-14 report also reveals that there has been no significant change in enrolment at the primary school-level and the number of students enrolled in primary schools is almost at the same level as it was in 2011-12.
According to the report, there are 145,491 primary schools (both private and public), where approximately 17 million students are enrolled. In contrast, nearly 1.84 million students are enrolled in the 14,405 registered madressahs, of which 97 per cent are privately managed and only 393 are run by the public sector. |