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Pakistan’s education emergency

The failure to educate the country’s children costs the equivalent of one earthquake a year, according to a new report.

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According to the Emergency Education Pakistan report produced by the Pakistan Education Task Force, 30,000 school buildings in Pakistan are in such a poor state that they pose a threat to the wellbeing of the children being taught in them [Credit: Fayyaz Ahmed of Pakistan Education Task Force]
Published On 26 Mar 2011
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A further 21,000 schools have no building at all [Credit: Fayyaz Ahmed of Pakistan Education Task Force]
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The task force has equated the failure to educate Pakistan(***)s children with the cost of enduring one earthquake a year [Credit: Fayyaz Ahmed of Pakistan Education Task Force]
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The only difference, it says, "is that this is a self-inflicted disaster" [Credit: Fayyaz Ahmed of Pakistan Education Task Force]
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Roughly one-in-ten of the world(***)s primary school aged children who are not in school live in Pakistan [Credit: Fayyaz Ahmed of Pakistan Education Task Force]
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This makes Pakistan second in the global ranking of out-of-school children [Credit: Fayyaz Ahmed of Pakistan Education Task Force]
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In 2005/2006, the government dedicated 2.5% of its budget to schooling [Credit: Fayyaz Ahmed of Pakistan Education Task Force]
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This has now fallen to just 1.5% [Credit: Fayyaz Ahmed of Pakistan Education Task Force]
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In the country of 160 million people, fewer than half of all women have ever been to school [Credit: Fayyaz Ahmed of Pakistan Education Task Force]
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In rural areas that figure drops to just 35% [Credit: Fayyaz Ahmed of Pakistan Education Task Force]
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The Pakistan Education Task Force is hoping to increase awareness of the (***)education emergency(***) facing the country [Credit: Fayyaz Ahmed of Pakistan Education Task Force]