The Punjab Free and Compulsory Education Bill 2013 School Education Department

16.01.2014

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Background

• Article 25-A of the Constitution requires that “the state shall provide free and compulsory education to all children of the age of five to sixteen years”.

• Article 37 of the Constitution stipulates that the State shall remove illiteracy and provide free and compulsory secondary education.

• The Bill after Preparation is with the Provincial Cabinet for approval to be put up before Provincial assembly.

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Definitions

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“capitation fee”

means any kind of donation or contribution or payment, by whatever name, other than the fee notified by the Government or the local authority;

“free education”

implies that the Government or a local authority shall not charge any fee or expense for providing education and shall endeavour to remove financial barriers that may prevent a child from completing ten years’ education;

“school”

means an educational institution imparting elementary or secondary education to the children and includes:  a school owned or controlled by the Government or a local authority;  a school receiving aid or grant to meet whole or part of its expenses from the Government, Federal Government or a local authority;  an un-aided school not receiving any kind of aid or grant to meet its expenses from the Government, Federal Government or a local authority;  a Deeni Madrassa or any school providing religious education recognized by the Government;

“screening procedure”

means the method of selection for admission of a child, in preference to another, other than a random method;

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Salient Features

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Right to Free & Compulsory Education

• Every child shall have a right to Education from Class-1 to Class10, Non-formal education, vocational Education or both.

• A child or parent shall not be liable to pay any fee in public schools.

• The Government shall provide suitable education to a child suffering from disability.

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Duties of the Govt.

To Provide free and compulsory Education to every Child Special Training facility to a child Government Ensure good quality of Education Prepare annual Statement of the Children admitted and Retained

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Duties of the Local Govt.

To Establish the Requisite No. of Schools and Ensure admission of each child in a school according to his age Maintain a Record of the Children up to age 16 in Local Government their Jurisdiction Ensure and Monitor admission attendance and completion of every child Prepare annual Statement of the Children admitted and Retained

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Concurrent Responsibilities of Govt. & Local Govt.

Provision of Required Funds Provide rebates and incentives to private entrepreneur to fulfill the purpose Govt. and Local Government To provide grand and aid to promote admission and attendance of disadvantaged child To Establish a school management body and Farooq e-Taleem Fund

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Duties of the Parents

Admission of Child in the school allocated Ensure attendance of school Parents In case of failure without reasonable excuse no subsidy or support from the Govt.

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Responsibilities of Private Schools

To provide free education according to grant –in-aid To provide free and compulsory education to the 10% children Shall provide information of students admitted Private Schools Shall not require a parent to purchase text books, uniforms and other material from particular Provider or any fee other than tuition fee

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Duties of Head Teacher and Teachers

• The in-charge of the school shall ensure that a child studying in the school is not subjected to corporal punishment or harassment.

• shall effectively carry out his functions and enforced discipline.

• Maintained the Regularity and Punctuality in attending the school.

• Complete the curriculum within time.

• Assess the learning ability of every child .

• Try for all round development of the Child.

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Duties of Head Teacher and Teachers

• Build child knowledge potentiality and talent • Adopted learning processes friendly and child centre manners in child • Keep the child free of fear and anxiety • To hold regular meetings with the parents

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Responsibilities of The Govt. Related to the Teachers

• To maintain the pupil teacher ratio within two years.

• To ensure that teachers vacancies are not more than 10% within four months.

• Introduce the system of reward to the teachers.

• To prescribe the mandatory courses and training for low performing teachers.

• Teachers shall not be deployed for non educational purposes except population censes disaster relief and elections.

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Legal Liabilities

• Parents without reasonable excuse will keep the child in school.

• Private schools shall admitted in class one and then in each class up till class ten 10% children free.

• School shall not require a parent to purchase Textbooks Uniforms or other martial from a particular provider.

• No Capitation fee by Private school and no screening test by Public Schools.

• School shall not expel a child from school without reasons.

• No corporal punishment to the students.

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Penalties

• In case of Capitation fee 20 times the capitation fee charge in the first instance and 50,000 rupees for each subsequent contravention.

• In case of putting child to screening test Rs. 50,000 in the first instance and Rs. 1,00000 for each subsequent contravention.

• For other contravention, imprisonment of six month or fine up to Rs. 50,000 or both.

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Objectives of the School Education Sector Plan • Provide a systemic overview • Identify gaps •Strategies for improvement • Determine resource requirement • Harmonize and align donor support • Synergize reforms within the framework of the Roadmap to • Optimize returns on investment • Improve efficiency and sustainability

Guiding Principles for PSESP

• • • • • • • It is guided by the “Chief Minister’s School Reforms Road Map” (Govt.of Punjab year 2011), which has identified the following initiatives: 100 % enrolment of all children of school-going age 100 % retention of all enrolled students up to the age of 16 Free, compulsory and internationally competitive education for all Merit-based recruitment and management of staff Targets for officers and ranking of districts on targets Transparent selection of officers and their retention linked with targets; and Incentives for good performance

Strategic Framework for

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PSESP

PSESP development has been guided by the: National Education Policy 2009 Millennium Development Goals Punjab Education Sector Reforms Programme Article 25-A (18 th Constitutional Amendment) “Chief Minister’s School Reforms Road Map” (Govt. of Punjab year 2011) • • …and focusing on: Differing roles of various service delivery modes-public: private etc.

Balancing quality, relevance, access, equity and governance

Indicator

NER Primary NER Middle NER Secondary Survival Rate Primary Survival Rate Middle Survival Rate Secondary Transition Rate Katchi to Primary Transition Rate Primary to Middle Transition Rate Middle to Secondary

Challenges

Current

70 37 25 57 86

Target

≈100 ≈100 ≈100 ≈100 ≈100 59 62 91 106 ≈100 ≈100 ≈100 ≈100

Access (NFE) Quality ECE

Source: EMIS 2011and PSLM 2011

Costing

• • • • • • • Estimates of Out of School population based on: – Population Projections of National Institute of Population Studies (NIPS) – NER trend from PSLMs Ratios: Classroom 1:50; Teachers 1:50, 3:50 and 4:50 for primary, middle and secondary Use of official Unit costs Estimates for public sector and PPP approach Costing of the 5 year plan is an estimate Financing component will be reviewed on an ongoing basis It is a cyclical process- a few additional costs will emerge from implementation itself

Level

Primary

Enrolment Shares in Private, PPP and Public Categor y

Public PPP Private

Enrol: Base Year 2011-12 %ages

56% 11% 33%

100% Planned Years

Y1 57% 15% 28%

100%

58% 18% 24% Y2

100%

Y3 59% 23% 18%

100%

Y4 60% 25% 15%

100%

Y5 61% 28% 11%

100%

Middle Secondary Public PPP Private

Enrol:

Public PPP Private

Enrol:

60% 07% 31%

100%

67% 04% 30%

100%

64% 09% 27%

100%

67% 04% 30%

100%

66% 11% 23%

100%

75% 06% 19%

100%

68% 13% 19%

100%

77% 09% 14%

100%

70% 15% 13%

100%

79% 11% 10%

100%

72% 17% 11%

100%

80% 13% 07%

100%

Estimated Additional Costing for Sector Plan (2013-18)

Components Recurrent Cost (in Rs. Million)

2013-14 2014-15

Year

2015-16

Est. Routine Budget 205.15 bn 245.07 bn 308.06 bn Teacher Salary

18020.34

24187.75

30262.18

2016-17

393.01 bn

37894.42

PEC (additional assessment cost) Textbooks (additional enrollment) Teachers’ Training (new teachers)

624.71

102.92

407.3

695.79

210.31

949.07

920.02

193.24

986.94

942.55

124.65

641.15

2017-18

496.22 bn

46683.80

975.69

130.21

618.19

Estimated Additional Costing for Sector Plan (2013-18)

Components Development Cost (in Rs. Million)

2013-14

New Schools/ Up gradation Additional Classroom

0.00

1,767.82

2014-15 8,500.00

1,824.92

1,105.62

Quality (Develop Standards, Assessment Tools/Reforms, Teacher Learning Development) Relevance (Tracer Study, Review of Curriculum Syllabus, Linkages b/w HE and SE & TVET) 1,179.47

32.88

5,63

Year

2015-16 14,535.00

1,824.92

0.00

0.00

2016-17 1,824.92

0.00

0.00

2017-18 14,535.00 9,690.00

1,824.92

0.00

0.00

Estimated Additional Costing for Sector Plan (2013-18)

Components Development Cost (in Rs. Million)

Governance (HRM, Performance Appraisal System, Recruitment Process, Capacity Development Plan - CD)

Improved Management

(Recruitment Policy, CD plan developed, Training Needs Assessment tools)

Monitoring & Evaluation

(Performance Assessment Framework, Existing Capacity Assessment)

Total Budget in Billions

2013-14 63.25

23.50

48.00

22.30

2014-15 1.50

0.00

0.00

37.481

Year

2015-16 0.00

0.00

0.00

48.722

2016-17 0.00

0.00

0.00

55.963

2017-18 0.00

0.00

0.00

59.923

THANKS

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