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... AEPAM History

 

About AEPAM History
These Projects (1992-94) were initiated to strengthen the Academy's resources, develop the expertise of the Faculty, impart training skills to provincial/regional coordinators and to identify the basic requirements under Need Assessment Survey. Eight training workshops under the supervision of the UNESCO/UNDP consultants have been conducted so far. Phase-II of this Project is also expected.
... BRIDGES Project
 

Basic Research and Implementation in Developing Education System
This BRIDGES (Basic Research and Implementation in Developing Education System) as Joint Project of the International Institute for International Development (HIID) Harvard University(USA) and the Academy of Educational Planning and Management, Ministry of Education, was started in late 1988 to conduct extensive surveys and propose concrete steps, based on these surveys, to improve the overall Primary Education in Pakistan.

A series of surveys carried out during 1988 and 1989 in four provinces and the Federal District covering 473 primary schools and over 900 teachers, 40 mosque schools(included 393 females in 40 villages), 260 observations of instruction in Urdu, Maths and Science periods in 32 schools and interviews of more than 100 educational administrators in all provinces were undertaken.

These surveys were mainly focused on the following four basic issues; Implementation and Management Study of Primary Education, Implementation Study of Educational System, Study on Girls Access to Schooling and Classroom Management Study. On the basis of these National-wide surveys,28 research papers were developed.

... IIEP Project
 

International Institute for Educational Planning
The International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP), Paris, has been implementing several research and training activities related to improvement of basic education programs in developing countries. As part of this effort, theinstitute in collaboration with UNICEF, had launched a major program for "Strengthening National Capacities for Planning, Implementing and Monitoring Basic Education Goals", in collaboration with this Academy. The main purpose of the program was to initiate and strengthen capacity building activities at grass-root levels in the field of EPM. A workshop was held in Kathmandu, Nepal from 13-21, December, 1994. The participants of the workshop included senior planners and policy-makers as well as heads of national training institutions in educational planning and management from all participating countries, namely Bangladesh, Pakistan, Nepal, India and Srilanka attended the workshop. Country paper on "Decentralized Planning and Management of Primary Education" were presented by the Academy at the Workshop.

... IBE Project
 

International Bureau of Education
The Academy in collaboration with International Bureau of Education (IBE), Geneva, launched a research project on teacher training for international education, called "Basic Education for Participation and Democracy: Key Issues in Human Resources Development (Teacher and Multicultural/International education)". The basic purpose of the study from IBE's perspective was to create a data bank on the subject and to select significant experiences for analysis. A general objective of the program is to improve teachers capacity in education of minorities-an important element for the building of a more democratic society. This purpose of the IBE was in confirmity with the Academy's work as Pakistan also consists of provinces where cultures differ and so do the values and priorities. But at the same time Education for All(EFA_ is a national commitment where democratic right of education has to be extended to every one irrespective of the cultural norms and ideas. The basic activities developed at country level report prepared on above-referred caption.
 
Federal Educational MIS

FedEMIS (Federal Educational Management Information System) Project-Phase I was launched from July 1991- June 1993 funded by UNESCO/ UNDP and USAID, however the Phase-II has been launched with the assistance of the World Bank has been shifted in the Academy in view of its professional and technical expertise. The main objectives of the Project-Phase- I were: to establish the infrastructure for EMIS and develop the mechanism for collecting educational data/statistics. This project was spreaded over 7 focal points (i.e. Islamabad, Karachi, Lahore, Peshawar, Quetta, Muzaffarabad and Gilgit) which covers almost all districts and regions in each province. During this phase four-year data, i.e. 1991-92 and 1995-96 have been collected under different parameters/ indicators. The Reports on “Pakistan Education Statistics: 1992-93 to 1997 –98 have already been published in addition to “School Census of Federal Areas 1993-94; 1994-95 and 1995-96” Under this project first time the field data is being collected in the history of the country however further improvements are being made in the light of suggestions put forward by the provinces.

Training Programmes

I- Short Term Training Programmes

The Academy also conducts competency oriented short term training programmes and lectures for different levels of officers ( i.e. middle level educational administrators planners personnel etc.) in certain specialized areas such as Educational Planning and Management (EPM) Financial Administration Personnel Administration Project Preparation Educational Statistics, Educational Management Information Systems (EMIS) Automation of Documentation and Libraries etc. while several training activities are organized in collaboration with the Ministry of Education national and international agencies and has developed organized in collaboration with the Ministry of Education national and international agencies and has developed close working liaison with UNESCO, UNDP, UNCRD, UNICEF, CPSC, World Bank , ADB, IIEP, HIID (Harvard institute for International Development. The Academy has conducted has conducted 261 such training courses from December 1982 to 2003. The nominations for these training programmes are invited through the Ministry of Education and the Provincial Education Departments. More than 5000 Educational Managers such as Directors of Education, Executive District Officer, District Education Officers , Heads of Institutions and Account Officials etc have benefited from these training programmes.

II- long- Term Training Programme
  
As a follow up of the Education Ministers and Secretaries Meeting the Academy was entrusted the responsibility for organizing long term training programmes (10-12 weeks) in Educational Planning and Management. The Course contents consist of 9 self-learning packages containing 49 Study Units. The course contents were prepared under the guidance of a UNESCO expert. The contents of course packages I-X were further revised during 1989. The Academy has conducted the following Five such long term training courses during 1982-2003.


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