The Ministry of Federal Education and Professional Training () is a federal ministry of the

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. The ministry's political head is known as th
Minister of Pakistan
and the ministry's bureaucratic head is the Education Secretary of Pakistan. Education is primarily provincial issue in Pakistan in the wake of 18th Amendment to the Constitution of Pakistan when Education department was transferred from federal to provinces. The Ministry was established in July 2011. In 2013, it was renamed to ''Ministry of Education, Trainings & Standards in Higher Education'' and in 2014 was renamed to ''Ministry of Federal Education and Professional Training''. The department’s main responsibilities include creating policies, plans and programs to ensure the accessibility and availability of education in Pakistan. It is also a provider of many technical, vocational and professional skills and training that are needed to satisfy the national and international standards of the employment market. It works in collaboration with other

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and organizations by sponsoring students, distributing scholarships and conducting multiple training sessions.

Organisations

Higher Education Commission

The Higher Education Commission (HEC) is an autonomous institution of primary funding, overseeing, regulating and accrediting the higher education efforts in Pakistan.

Academy of Educational Planning and Management

The Academy of Educational Planning and Management (AEPAM) was established in 1982 as an autonomous Organization of Ministry of Education and it was declared as 'Subordinate Office' of Ministry of Education in 2005. After 18th Amendment Bill 2011 AEPAM is 'Subordinate Office' of Ministry of Federal Education and Professional Training. AEPAM is a training institution for education managers in the field of financial and administrative management of secondary schools and higher secondary schools.

Basic Education Community Schools

The BEC Schools are based on Non-Formal basic education system having a single home based room for school for primary education where the premises is provided free of cost by the community. In each BEC School, 30 learners of age group 4–16 years are mandatory. Single teacher is responsible for classes of a school by adopting multi-grade teaching methods; based on concurrent curriculum.

National Commission for Human Development

National Commission for Human Development is an attached department whose mission is to improve access to

basic education According to the International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED), basic education comprises the two stages primary education and secondary education, lower secondary education. Universal basic education Basic education featured heavi ...

and healthcare in the country’s poorest communities. NCHD is working in 134

districts of Pakistan The districts of Pakistan () are the third-level administrative divisions of Pakistan, below administrative units of Pakistan, provinces and divisions of Pakistan, divisions, but forming the first-tier of local government in Pakistan, local ...

National Education Assessment System

National Education Assessment System (NEAS) was launched in 2003 to develop national capacity for monitoring learning achievements of elementary students and improve the quality of services — curriculum, textual material, teacher's delivery, policy formulation. The system is a key program of the Education Sector Reforms (ESR) and is funded by the

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National Education Foundation

National Education Foundation was founded in late 1994 and became operational in 1996. In 1997 Federal Teacher Foundation (FTF) was also merged with it. It was restructured as corporate in 2002. It has mandate to promote basic education through

Public Private Partnership In public relations and communication science, publics are groups of individual people, and the public (a.k.a. the general public) is the totality of such groupings. This is a different concept to the sociological concept of the ''Öffentlichke ...

FATA The Federally Administered Tribal Areas, commonly known as FATA, was a autonomous administrative division, semi-autonomous tribal region in north-western Pakistan that existed from Independence Day (Pakistan), 1947 until being merged with the ...

Gilgit-Baltistan Gilgit-Baltistan (; ), formerly known as the Northern Areas, is a region administered by Pakistan as an administrative units of Pakistan, administrative territory and consists of the northern portion of the larger Kashmir region, which has b ...

, AJK &

Islamabad Capital Territory The Islamabad Capital Territory is a federal territory of Pakistan, centred around Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan. It is located on the northern edge of the Pothohar Plateau, at the foot of the Margalla Hills, in the northwest of the ...

National Talent Pool

National Talent Pool is an initiative of

with a mandate to identify key professionals’ occupations according to scarcity and relative importance for national development. The NTP was established in the Ministry to compile basic personal data and details regarding professional attainments and work experience of talented personnel.

National Training Bureau

National Training Bureau (NTB) was established in 1976. It is an attached department of Ministry of Federal Education and Professional Training. The National Training Bureau (NTB) has the mandate to assess existing and future training needs, develop training syllabi, specifying training standards and conduct trade testing. Since its inception, keeping in view the local & foreign labor market needs, National Training Bureau has implemented & completed different training projects on vocational training."National Training Bureau"
''semiotics.pk''.

Federal Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education

Federal Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education,

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is the Intermediate and secondary Education Government board in

Pakistan Pakistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by population, fifth-most populous country, with a population of over 241.5 million, having the Islam by country# ...

for educational institutes in

, Gilgit–Baltistan, AJK and for Pakistan International Schools abroad.

References

External links

* {{authority control Ministry of Education (Pakistan)