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Impact of Decentralization on Community Participation in Education Sector at District Level in Pakistan

By Manzoor H.Shah Syed.

Published by Ubiquitous Learning: An International Journal

Through devolution plan of 2000, the public representatives at local level were empowered. The purpose behind the plan was to address the public problems at their door with their representative’s participation. In education sector, the Executive District Officers (EDOs), Education were empowered at district level for all educational activities. However, the role of the public representative was still there. The district Nazims, tehsil and union councils Nazims were given new role under the devolution plan. The present study attempted to investigate the impact of decentralization on the community participation at district level. As envisaged the system could not activate the community participation. For this study, data was collected from Executive District Officers (Education) (EDOs), District Education Officers (Secondary Education) (DEOs), Heads of Higher Secondary Schools (Heads) and Secondary Schools and Subject Specialists and Secondary School Teachers (SSs) through different questionnaires. It was found that the performance of the community representatives while tackling educational activities was not positive and up to the mark. The public representatives need training while handling educational activities.

Ubiquitous Learning: An International Journal, Volume 2, Issue 1, pp.57-70. Article: Print (Spiral Bound). Article: Electronic (PDF File; 1.528MB).

Dr. Manzoor H.Shah Syed

Assistant Professor, Educational Planning Policy Studies and Leadership, Allama Iqbal Open University, Islamabad, Pakistan