Comparison between Pakistan and

Switzerland Educational Policy

Pakistan Policy for education:

The policy stipulates an access to elementary education through the effective utilization
of existing facilities and services and also to provide for new ones to promote
elementary education.
It declares the building of character at the elementary level on the Islamic lines to
promote humanism. This is not something new as this objective underlies all Education
Policies designed and formulated at different times. The objective remains sacred but
unrealizable in view of the operation of socio-politico-economic institutional forces in the
country, let loose on account of the thrust of economic development.
The policy stands for improving the competence of teachers through various training
programmes. Teacher is a major component of the education process and if he could
play his role effectively being armed with new teaching methodologies, the objectives of
the Education Policy could be realized greatly.

Objectives of the policy:

a) The objective of the policy is to remove disparities and imbalances of all types in
regard to gender for promoting equality. It is no less than a Herculean task to
achieve the objective in Pakistan where a number of socio-economic constraints
operate to encourage gender discrimination.
b) The policys contention is to bring out of school children within the ambit of
elementary education. It accords a high priority to this objective, though it
appears pretty difficult to bring it within the reach of realization.
c) The policy aims at diversifying the financial resource base in respect of the
elementary education. This basically calls for increasing the percentage of GNP
to education. True, there is a competition among different sub-sectors of
education to claim resources for their development.

d) The policy intends adopting non formal system to complement formal system to
achieve the targets of elementary system.
e) The policy envisages to institute a monitoring system for obtaining timely and
reliable information pertaining to enrollment, retention, completion etc. It also
means to introduce qualitative monitoring of achievement.
f) The last but not the least is to introduce management and supervision system
effectively by bringing about greater decentralization, participatory governance
and accountability. Pakistan is not deficient in making policies, laying down
laudable objectives, but it is in the field of management and monitoring.
The Education System of Pakistan is divided into five levels
1.Primary level (Class 1 to 5)
2.Middle level (Class 5 to 8th)
3.Secondary level (S.S.C)
4.Intermediate level (H.S.C)
5.University level (Graduation, Masters and Research)

Switzerland Policy for education:

The education system in Switzerland is very diverse, because the constitution of
Switzerland delegates the authority for the school system mainly to the cantons. In
Switzerland, most children go to public schools. Private schools usually are expensive
and people tend to think that students of private schools probably didn't make it at the
public school.
For post-compulsory education, the cantons and the federal government each have
their own responsibilities, and thus bear the overall responsibility for these levels of
education together. The Swiss nation-building process occurred as a gradual integration
of autonomous cantons into a confederation.
A vital turning point in Swiss educational policy was the implementation of intercantonal
agreements, called concordats by the EDK. These agreements have been a key
component of Swiss educational policy ever since.

According to Switzerland policy for education it is divided into following educational

levels:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.

Primary
Secondary
International Education
Tertiary
Educational Rankings
Cantonal School Systems

Comparative Analysis

Switzerland

Pakistan

Continent
Europe

Asia

Primary Language
German

Urdu

Currency
Swiss Franc

Pakistan Rupee

Capital City
Bern

Islamabad

Largest City
Zurich

Karachi

Literacy Rate

54.74%

Education Duration

13.0 years

12.0 years

Primary School Starting Age

7 years old

5 years old

Secondary School Starting Age

13 years old

10 years old