The importance and value of Education for developing the quality of human resource is undeniable. Education is considered as one of the most important element for nation’s development. However, in case of Pakistan’s education sector, there are several challenges which influence the education system to attain its full potential. In Pakistan, 22.8 million children are out of schools which create huge gap for the individual to gain access to education. Moreover, the literacy rate is below the global average which create significant gender disparity with 70% male literacy rate and 49% female literacy rate. Along with this, budget allocation for…
Author: Fayyaz Ur Rehman Khan
Pakistan – a country of over 220 million souls, although being the 05th (fifth) largest (Population wise) country of the world, yet it has not been able to fully tap the potential and resources and has literacy rate being less then 60%. Accordingly, the percentage of population seeking/getting Higher Education is much, much lower. As such, there’s no dearth of talent and genius minds in the country, the access to Higher Education has always remained a big hurdle keeping in view access to the universities (geographical area wise population distribution), the fee structures, lack of information etc. Although the public…
Ihsan Trust has been a ray of hope for those students seeking Higher Education in Pakistan who are having financial issues with the payment of their fees to Universities and Professional bodies. Already having the lowest Literacy rates in the South Asian Region, coupled with the recent waves of natural calamities in the last few years in the form of Covid -19 pandemic, floods, torrential rains, etc. have exacerbated the problem of the students and because of increased poverty due to these natural calamities, they are finding it really hard to meet the expenses of higher education in Pakistan. Around…
In order to move forward and progress in the world, giving ample of opportunities to the people to prosper and contribute towards the nation building, Education plays a vital and most important role. In most of the developing countries (including Pakistan) unfortunately, education has remained on least priority list and specially Higher Education is considered a luxury, affordable by only few (blessed ones). As Pakistan being a developing country and considered as a Third World country, it is amongst the countries in the world having a large number of people living below the poverty line. Accordingly, not only Education has…
Pakistan is amongst the countries in the world having a large number of people living below the poverty line. The facilities like clean drinking water, sanitation, education and proper health facilities are also not available to a large number of people. Accordingly, with lowest literacy rates, the proportion of population acquiring higher education or even having access to higher education is much, much lower. Poverty is one reason for this scenario. Utilizing time in seeking education is seen as an opportunity cost by many. According to them, the time utilized in studying could be utilized in earning to feed the…
Ihsan Trust founded (registered) on 07th day of January 2010 is a non-profit organization, established with the aim of providing financial assistance for Medicare facilities, Islamic Microfinance, Immediate Relief to the affectees of any natural disaster/calamity, Rehabilitation and other community building services and above all, the Interest Free Loan (Qarz-e-Hasna) facility to the needy students seeking higher education in Pakistan. Ihsan Trust is engaged in all these activities to help and assist poor and down trodden and increase their standard of living. As a rule, it is following the principle as per Holy Quran, “In their wealth there was a…
Pakistan — a country of over 200 million souls, although the sixth largest (population wise) country of the world, yet it has not been able to fully tap the potential and resources and has literacy rate less than 60%. The percentage of population seeking/getting higher education is much, much lower. As such, there’s no dearth of talent and genius minds in the country, the access to higher education has always been a big question mark. Although the public sector universities and higher education institutes in the country have highly subsidized fee structure, yet these have never been able to accommodate…