Higher education in South Asia has become increasingly privatized. India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka all have a growing presence of non-state actors in education.
This overview of current educational trends in Pakistan features information about the country’s education system, student mobility trends, and more.
Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and Pakistan are showing strong international enrollmeent trajectories – even in the face of declining numbers elsewhere.
By Lubna Shah Anwar, Educational Consultant at the US Embassy in Lahore, and Nick Clark, WENR Editor Over the past four years, Pakistan has increased its spending on higher education by more than 700 percent and the government appears determined to reverse years of underinvestment…
By Robert Sedgwick CLICK HERE TO READ OUR LATEST PROFILE ON EDUCATION IN PAKISTAN Originally published in the January/February 2005 issue of WENR Pakistan currently suffers from large fiscal and trade deficits, the absence of a strong middle class and weak foreign investment. Economic growth…