What Is An Education System And How Is The System Of Education In Pakistan?

An education system is an organized collective effort to teach prescribed subjects and skills to the young ones of a community, prescribed subjects and skills to the young ones of a community. The system includes books, teachers, students, institutions and examinations. From the beginning of civilization man has taken interest in group education. Gradually schools, colleges and universities came into existence, now all countries have large departments for education headed by a secretly and a minister.

In Pakistan we have our own education system. There are thousands of schools and colleges with millions of teachers and other employees. Education is carried out in three stages years. After Secondary School Certificate students joins Higher Secondary School or College. After passing intermediate examination brilliant students with excellent grades go to join professional colleges such as Medical, Engineering and Computer and Commerce Colleges. Others may continue their education to Graduation and Post graduation level. Almost all universities offer courses of Master's M. Phil and Ph. D. degrees.

There are many semi autonomous boards of intermediate and Secondary Education meant for prescribing syllabuses for secondary and intermediate classes and conducting their examinations. Universities have their own boards of studies and examination departments. There is Allma Iqbal Open University, Islamabad in distance teaching through correspondence.

An Education system is a system where by government setup primary and secondary schools to provide quality education to its citizen. Education is the process of teaching, leaning skills that will enable the person to be able think on his own. So that one day they can contribute with their skills to their mother country in any capacity. Be it, Engineer, doctor, or as an athlete.

In most countries it is divided into 3 parts, Primary, Secondary and Higher Education. With Primary and secondary being funded by government in most countries. However, Higher education which is mostly private has to fund by one self except in countries like Germany.

In Pakistan, the education system is basically limited to the main cities. Primary education is state funded but most middle class to upper class citizens opt for private schools. With Beacon house system and The City School heading the way. The reason for such option is due to the fact that government funded education is not up to the standard that private education is providing. This therefore has created a huge difference among the students of both of education system with the O-LEVEL students from the private schools excelling more than the metric based government schools.