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Research on Children with Disabilities Influences Education Policy in Pakistan
(REAL Centre, University of Cambridge and The Impact Initiative, 2019-05)Children who face multiple disadvantages including those related to disability are among those least likely to be learning. Using large-scale household data together with qualitative data from classrooms in rural Pakistan, ... -
Education of Women with Disabilities in Pakistan: Enhanced Agency, Unfulfilled Aspirations
(Taylor & Francis, 2015-05-14)This paper examines the extent to which the capability approach captures the complexity of the lives of young women with disabilities in Pakistan, particularly in relation to their education. Focusing on their educational ... -
Improving the Public Sector Schools in Pakistan: Strategies for Introducing Voice into the System
(Oxford University Press, 2015-06)The contributions in this book are research-based and strive at providing a deeper understanding of the various dimensions of the education crises as well as responses to them. Among the aims of this book are also to reach ... -
Schools and Learning in Rural India and Pakistan: Who Goes Where, and How Much are they Learning?
(Springer Netherlands, 2015-09)It is increasingly recognized that there is a global learning crisis. This article investigates this learning crisis through a comparative analysis of rural India and Pakistan. Using data from each country’s Annual Status ... -
Helpdesk Report: The Teacher Labour Market in Pakistan
(The Health & Education Advice & Resource Team (HEART), 2016-09-09)This report undertakes a rapid review of existing literature and summarises some key evidence on the teacher labour market in South Asia. It specifically focuses on salaries and conditions of teachers in the low-fee private ... -
ESRC-DFID Research for Policy and Practice: Disability and Education
(Institute of Development Studies and The Impact Initiative, 2017-12)This collection of ESRC–DFID funded research provides new evidence on what governments must consider in order to ensure that children with disabilities benefit from quality education without discrimination or exclusion.This ... -
Interrogating the Rights Discourse on Girls' Education: Neocolonialism, Neoliberalism, and the Post?Beijing Platform for Action
(© 2015 Institute of Development Studies, 01/07/2015)This article examines how girls' education since 1995 has emerged as a prominent symbol within the ‘rights’ discourse coming out of the Beijing Platform for Action. By highlighting the neoliberal and neocolonial processes ... -
Impoverished Rural Districts of Pakistan: An Independent Evaluation of Impact on Educational and Cognitive Outcomes in Sindh Province, Pakistan
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, May 2013)This article presents findings of cognitive and performance assessment among recipient and non?recipient school girls in the catchment schools of the Tawana Pakistan Project using standardised matrices. This is the first ...
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