WORK
Education Quality, Learning & Skills
This theme is about what happens after a child is in school, and whether they actually learn. It covers the basics (can a child read and do simple maths), the depth (are children thinking, or just memorising), and the relevance (are young people gaining the skills they will really need). For PCE, getting a child into school means little if they do not learn once they are there.
It matters because Pakistan has a learning crisis, not just an out-of-school crisis. Most children still cannot read and understand a simple story by the age of 10. Many leave school without the thinking, digital, and practical skills that jobs and daily life demand, in a country where most people are under 30. Fixing this means moving away from rote learning and exams toward real understanding, better-trained teachers, and lessons built around skills. That is what our work on quality, learning, and skills is for.
What we do
PROGRAMS & INITIATIVES
Policy Dialogues & Consultations
Education Transformation: From Silos to Systems (Punjab)
A multiactor provincial roundtable in Lahore that closed with a signed Declaration on Education Transformation.
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Policy Dialogues & Consultations
People's Agenda for Transforming Education: Sindh
A multi-actor provincial roundtable with the Government of Sindh, closing on a shared agenda for education transformation and skills.
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Policy Dialogues & Consultations
Reimagining Education: Youth Voices for Systemic Change
A student dialogue challenging rote learning and demanding an education that prepares them for the future.
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PUBLICATIONS
Research Report
Whose Voice Matters? Youth Agency in Determining and Learning the Skills that Matter in Pakistan's Public Secondary Schools
Pakistan's education system is built for young people, but almost never with them. A study of who decides what students learn, and what it costs when students have no say.
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Research Report
Learning What Matters in Pakistan: Rethinking Skills and Education Systems Transformation
A research study co-published with CUE Brookings as part of the Network for Education Systems Transformation (NEST). It examines why Pakistan's classrooms still fall short of 21st-century learning, and the systemic shifts in the 4Ps - purpose, power, pedagogy, and positioning - needed to close the gap.
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Scorecards
Mapping Skills for the Future: Capturing Student Aspirations at District Level
PCE's skills-mapping study across 12 districts surveryed students in grades 10 and 12 to profile their skills aspirations.
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INISGHTS
Documentaries & Films
Primary Education Issues | Lights! Camera! Education! Student Film Contest Copy Copy Copy Copy
Sania Nasir, IBA Sukkur (5th). PCE invited filmmaking and academia students across Pakistan to capture the country's primary-education issues in one-minute films. The top five — judged on content, creativity, imagery, story, and technical quality — were screened at PCE's 6th Annual Convention on 30 December 2015.
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Documentaries & Films
Sowing Weeds to Reap Wheat | Lights! Camera! Education! Student Film Contest
Awais Siddiqui, Bahria University (4th). PCE invited filmmaking and academia students across Pakistan to capture the country's primary-education issues in one-minute films. The top five — judged on content, creativity, imagery, story, and technical quality — were screened at PCE's 6th Annual Convention on 30 December 2015.
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Documentaries & Films
Half Education | Lights! Camera! Education! Student Film Contest
Yasir Ali, Riphah University (3rd). PCE invited filmmaking and academia students across Pakistan to capture the country's primary-education issues in one-minute films. The top five — judged on content, creativity, imagery, story, and technical quality — were screened at PCE's 6th Annual Convention on 30 December 2015.
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