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Punjab Education Foundation: Governance Structure and Program Portfolio

Ahsan Rana


INDUSTRY : Education

AREA : Business Government/International Economy

ORGANIZATION : Punjab Government

LENGTH : 18

LUMS No : 16-308-2015-2

PUBLICATION YEAR : 2015

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KEYWORDS:

Punjab,Pakistan,Education Foundation,Governance Structure,Program Portfolio,Constiution,Restructuring,Financial Assistance,Foundation Assisted Schools,Educational Voucher Scheme,New School Program,Continuous Professional Development Program


DESCRIPTION:

This is a multipurpose note and can be used in several executive or regular courses in public management. It can be used as an example of supply-side and demand-side interventions to provide education to children from poor and marginalised communities. In particular, it can be used in the undergraduate course “Contemporary Social Policy Issues in Pakistan” while discussing various models of state intervention to improve enrollment and quality of education in Pakistan. Also, it can be used to demonstrate the importance of governance reform in state-supported social enterprises.


LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

1) To understand the working of objectives of autonomous organisations of the government. 2) The note exemplifies Punjab Government's explicit decision to use the private sector as its preferred vehicle for delivering education. 3) It presents a model of publicly-funded but privately provided education.


SUBJECTS COVERED:

Business Government, International Economy, Education