Pakistan spends only 2.5% of its gross domestic product on education. This in a country where half the adult population is illiterate.
Friday, July 3, 2009
Pakistan's Education Battleground
Pakistan's education system has suffered decades of neglect and, with a third of under-nines not going to school, the vacuum is being filled by madrassas or religious schools, as Orla Guerin discovered.
Pakistan spends only 2.5% of its gross domestic product on education. This in a country where half the adult population is illiterate.
Pakistan spends only 2.5% of its gross domestic product on education. This in a country where half the adult population is illiterate.
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