Alif Ailaan ( ur, ) was a nonprofit organization working in the field of education in Pakistan from 2013 to 2018. Launched by a team of media and communications specialists, the program aimed to highlight education on priority basis in Pakistan and make the masses aware of the importance of education. It ran campaigns in print, on radio and television, and on social media for awareness of the masses about education. The program conducts

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and surveys and publishes the highly cited district education rankings report. It also monitored the performance of parliamentarians in reforming education in their constituencies. Working in the four

provinces of Pakistan The administrative units of Pakistan comprise four provinces, one federal territory, and two disputed territories: the provinces of Punjab, Sindh, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and Balochistan; the Islamabad Capital Territory; and the administrative ...

as well as Azad Jammu and Kashmir,

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and the formerly Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Alif Ailaan identified the weak spots in education through research and aimed to assist decision makers in creating and implementing better education policies.

Contributions

Alif Ailaan addressed the educational crisis in Pakistan and suggested measures to reform the education landscape. Through their research and data compilation, they assisted decision makers to come up with. Funded by the United Kingdom's

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, the organization also provided grant support to civil society organisations working for educational reforms and fund research on issues related to education in Pakistan.

District Education Rankings

Alif Ailaan also released annual District Education Rankings for all districts of Pakistan on the basis of its research. The research examined the state of education in the country's 148 districts and agencies and identified the weak spots in education. According to District Education Rankings 2013, the Punjab was on the top while

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falls in the bottom. No districts of the

Sindh Sindh (; ; ur, , ; historically romanized as Sind) is one of the four provinces of Pakistan. Located in the southeastern region of the country, Sindh is the third-largest province of Pakistan by land area and the second-largest province ...

could find a place among top 50. The 2014 District Education Rankings of 146 districts of Pakistan show that Islamabad was the best performing region in terms of overall standards of education, followed by districts of Punjab and Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK). The 2015 District Education Ranking shows poor performance of

while the performance of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa for improving its enrollment, retention and gender parity indicators was lauded.

Rawalpindi district Rawalpindi District ( Punjabi and ur, ) is a district located in the northernmost part of the Punjab province of Pakistan. Parts of the district form part of the Islamabad Rawalpindi metropolitan area. Rawalpindi city is the district capi ...

was on top of the ranking.

Performance of parliamentarians in education sector

Alif Ailaan also gauged the performance of every Member of the National Assembly on the basis of educational performance in their respective constituencies. They were assessed against four indicators for education – gender parity, physical facilities,

student–teacher ratio Student–teacher ratio or student–faculty ratio is the number of students who attend a school or university divided by the number of teachers in the institution. For example, a student–teacher ratio of 10:1 indicates that there are 10 students ...

and retention.

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External links

* http://www.alifailaan.pk Educational organisations based in Pakistan 2013 establishments in Pakistan 2018 disestablishments in Pakistan

Contributions

District Education Rankings

Performance of parliamentarians in education sector

See also

References

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