سکول آوٹ سورسنگ

A foreign friend sent newspaper clippings to the author, Dr. Inayatullah Faizi, highlighting two contradictory news items from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. One report detailed children in Upper Bara, Khyber district, being forced to study outdoors due to a lack of school buildings. The other article stated that the current government is rapidly working on a phased program to hand over government schools to the private sector to improve education quality and facilities, aiming for maximum school enrollment. The author attributes this policy, officially termed "outsourcing" rather than privatization, to pressure from the World Bank and IMF, viewing it as a detrimental foreign influence on national priorities. He observes that outsourced schools often lack proper educational plans, employ unqualified staff at low wages, and focus more on student enrollment through incentives rather than quality education, attributing the decline in government school enrollment to a lack of basic infrastructure.