Dilemma of Primary Education Quality and Suggestive Measures

Abstract

Improving the quality of education has become a global agenda at all educational levels and more so at the primary level. Although the government of Pakistan also has taken some bold steps in this regard such as; Teachers’ Training Programmes, Development of New Curricula, Improvements in Examination and Assessment System, Incentives for Teaching Staff as well as for Students and Introduction of Good Administration and Management but the quality of primary education is still a far cry. There are a variety of reasons for the poor quality of primary education. The main cause as assessed by the authors is the teacher’s poor quality pedagogical skills. There is a need to take some special remedial measures to improve the situations in this regard. Especially, establishment of a Quality Education Commission can help in improving the situations.