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The National Education Census (NEC) 2005 has been
conducted for the first time in the history of Pakistan. Reliable, accurate
and comprehensive database is a prerequisite for any type of planning.
Obviously planning and management of education system at all levels also
requires information based on the comprehensive database including all
categories of educational institutions in the country. Thus the need for
National Education Census was being felt from all quarters for more informed
and visionary policy formulation, decision-making, efficiency, effective
reforms and quality of education.
In the past incomplete database was being used which had partial information
of private sector schools, colleges and universities, technical and
vocational education, professional institutions, deeni madaris etc. There
was no data to visualizing the total expenditure on education, as
expenditure by the private sector was not available. Planning of education
was affected because of the incomplete data, which is clear from the
existing gap between planning and implementation. Even at international
level our ranking among the countries of the world remained low due
non-availability of complete data which sometime caused embarrassment for
the authorities.
Keeping in view the multiple concerns the Ministry of Education decided to
conduct National Education Census (NEC) 2005 in collaboration with Academy
of Educational Planning and Management (AEPAM) and Federal Bureau of
Statistics (FBS), Statistics Division. The census aimed at complete
enumeration of all categories of educational institutions in the country and
establishment of comprehensive National Data Bank on Education.
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The National Education Census (NEC) covered 245,682
institutions which includes public and private schools, colleges and
universities, professional institutions, vocational and technical
institutions, mosque schools, deeni Madaris, non-formal basic education
centres, distance education centres, special education institutions etc. The
census has primarily focused to gather data on the level, type and
management of the institution, enrolment, teaching staff and their
qualifications and training, non-teaching staff, medium of instruction,
building and other facilities available and expenditure. The data on
different aspects of institutions have been collected for the year 2004-05. |