Provincial Early Childhood Education (ECE) Plan 2011-2015

Abstract

Designing action plans that aid in the achievement of Early Childhood Education (ECE) in the province of Baluchistan by 2015.

Early Childhood Education (ECE) plan is drafted by the Pakistan government in response to the Dakar World Education Forum request to design action plans that allow achievement of goals established in the Education for All conference. The basic purpose of this plan is to draft policies that will expand the learning opportunities present to children and to enhance the quality of education within the province of Baluchistan. The ECE provision plan is based on multiple strategies that are designed to achieve the stated goal within a minimum period of five years. The plan highlights how successful implementation and monitoring of policies at various stages can allow the country to achieve long term targets and strengthen the state of education. The action plan initially focuses on introducing ECE classes across the province at various schools that are currently engaged in providing education to children from the age 5-6. The plan further highlights that by training teachers as per ECE methods the existing schools can be converted to ECE schools without any additional cost. The strategies include opening of 10000 new primary schools across the province while also providing physical infrastructure to the necessary schools. The plan recognizes the financial constraints of such a strategy and therefore recommends aid from donors that can help the government in achieving the ECE objective by 2015.

Publishing Year: 2011

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