Budgeting education priorities
Saturday, June 27, 2009
Daily Times, Pakistan, Saturday, June 27, 2009
analysis: Abbas Rashid
The National Education Policy review process was initiated in January 2006 and it is now June 2009, which means that four budgets have been approved during this period but the process has yet to conclude with the announcement of the new education policy
The federal and provincial budgets for 2009-2010 have been presented and we are nowhere close to spending that minimum of 4 percent of GDP on education, recommended by UNESCO all those years ago. Actually, given the state of our education system, we would probably need to spend a whole lot more than that. The federal education budget for 2009-10 at Rs 56 billion, with a large chunk going to the Higher Education Commission (HEC), shows a 36 percent increase over the revised estimates of Rs 41 billion for 2008-09.
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Labels: Education, Education Policy, Education Reforms, Education System
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