Education and National Security

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 Education and National Security

• Pakistani children are growing up in a world where

economies, governments, and people are
increasingly intertwined in a single global network.

• Globalization and the rapid advancement in

technology have entirely redefined academic and
professional success
• The failure to keep pace with the
new-age dynamics has significant
strategic repercussions for a
country to both remain relevant
on the world stage and protect its
frontiers.
• Many governments around the
world have already equipped an
entire generation of their
students with the necessary
knowledge and training to
participate and dominate the
professional fields that define the
21st century.
 Pakistan's National Security Hurdles
• Pakistan’s seven decades’ worth of
failure to prioritize its human
capital has left the country
vulnerable on multiple national
security fronts.

• Chief among these are economic

growth and global competitiveness,
physical safety, global awareness,
and as the last 15 years have
sufficiently illustrated – unity and
cohesion.
 Pakistan's Education Status

• With the country still among the struggling to

curtail the colossal figure of 22.8 million out-of-
school children — the second largest in the world.

• Being perched in a rather unfriendly neighborhood

and battling the many threats to its sovereignty and
integrity, education in Pakistan continues to be
treated as an afterthought.
 Pakistan's Education Status

• A comparison of Pakistan’s public spending on education

against other South Asian countries documented in, “Bringing
All the Girls to School: A Case for More Investment,” revealed
that in 2017 Pakistan allocated 2.9% of its GDP to education.

• Bhutan’s 6.6%,
• Nepal’s 5.2%,
• India’s 3.8% and
• even Afghanistan’s 4.1%.
 Pakistan's Education Status
• As per the results of the Trends in
International Mathematics and Science
Study (TIMSS) published in 2020,
Pakistani Grade-4 students ranked
second to last in maths and science.

• Only 27% of Pakistani children met the

low international benchmark (ie, basic
addition, subtraction, multiplication, and
division), and just 21% were able to meet
the low international benchmark in
science.
Highlighted in a recent white paper, “Public Investment in
Education: An Appraisal of SDG-4 in Pakistan,” Pakistan
requires a rapid response underscored by strong coordination
between the federating units to ensure simultaneous,
countrywide implementation of a nationally owned plan of
action to uplift the country’s dreary education indicators. Much
greater public investment in education lies at the heart of
achieving desirable results.
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