“Non-formal education is a very cost-effective solution to illiteracy, especially among out-of-school children,” he said. He said for providing education to those children, non-formal schools were the best option available to the government.ĮSEF managing directorZareeful Mani said non-formal education was the most ignored sector despite the provision of low-cost education to the residents of far-off areas. “Currently, students enrolled in non-formal schools total 200,000, which is an encouraging number,” he said.Įlementary and secondary education secretary Muttasim Billah Shah said the province had 3.5 million out-of- school children, who had emerged as a “very big issue.” He said non-formal schools were an excellent source of formal learning in far-off areas. The chief secretary said that children should get education whether it was offered in schools or outside. He said it was the responsibility of the government to allocate the maximum funds for the ESEF in the budget. He said that the graduating students would finally get admission to colleges and universities with their excellence in the respective fields to the credit of their teachers. The governor also said that the institutions like the Elementary and Secondary Education Foundation would enrol out-of-school children and provide them with modern formal education. He said he was shocked to learn that 3.5 million children were out of school in the province. It was the first graduation ceremony of these community schools where gold medals were given away to three boys and girls each for securing top positions in a competition held for the graduating students of 3,800 community schools across the province.Ĭommunity schools with enrolment of both boys and girls have been established in the areas without educational institutions in both public and private sectors.ĭuring the ceremony, the governor said the teachers working in far-off areas of the province were actually waging a war against ignorance. The event was attended by Governor Ghulam Ali, provincial chief secretary Nadeem Aslam Chaudhry, the minister for elementary and secondary education, the education secretary and senior relevant officials.įirst graduation ceremony of these educational institutions held PESHAWAR: Senior officials on Saturday praised the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Elementary and Secondary Education Foundation (KPEF) for its performance, especially efforts for the provision of low-cost education to underprivileged children in the province.ĭuring the graduation ceremony of the students of non-formal primary schools, they, however, remained tight-lipped about the non-payment of salary to the teachers of those educational institutions for the last two years.Ī staff member of the KPEF told Dawn that a summary was sent to the finance department more than one and a half years ago for the release of Rs500 million to pay salary to those teachers, but the department had been sitting on it.

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