May 7, 2015: The SDPI and Alif Ailaan teams launched the 3rd Alif Ailaan District Education Rankings for Pakistan in Islamabad. This was the third consecutive year of the publication of the rankings. A brief abstract is below.
The rankings attempt to assess both educational outcomes and school infrastructure by comparing the relative performance of different regions. The rankings provides a comprehensive measure of education standards in Pakistan, covering important policy areas such as access, quality, gender parity and infrastructure.
Now in it’s third year the rankings now provides a basis for a comparison of different parts of the country to track their performance over time. This is done through the collation of publicly available data on nine different indicators to produce two indices. The first an index of educational outcomes, including access, retention, learning and gender parity. The second, an index of basic school infrastructure.
The launch videos of the event are available below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBQayHcWToc
Dawn covered the launch here.
Asif Saeed Memon 