LAHORE: Fourteen per cent children of school age are not attending schools in rural districts of Punjab – a five per cent increase from nine per cent out-of-school children recorded in 2019.

For the first time, the number of out-of-school boys (8pc) has surpassed the girls (6pc) by two per cent in the rural areas.

“About six per cent girls and eight per cent boys are...

Punjab, the largest province of Pakistan, with nearly 120 million people has a relatively advanced industrial base and better agricultural areas thanks to its water resources. If a province of this size and capacity cannot put all – or at least almost all – its children to school, something has gone very wrong in how we have imagined and conducted governance and education management...

EDITORIAL: The latest Annual Status of Education Report (ASER), a citizens-led initiative aimed at providing reliable estimates on schooling status of children, shows that 14 percent school age children are out of school in rural districts of Punjab, which is a five percent drop from 2019.

The data is based on survey of 35 districts; 20, 062 households in 1,018 villages; 51,067...

The statistic was revealed by the Annual Status of Education Report Punjab 2021

“About six per cent girls and eight per cent boys are out of school in the rural districts of Punjab,” according to the Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) - Punjab Rural 2021. That’s a five per cent jump in the total percentage of out of school children compared to 2019.