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  2. Going to School - Wikipedia

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    Going to School Fund, commonly known as Going to School, is a non-profit education trust established in New Delhi, India, in 2003. The organization takes its name from a children's book, Going to School in India, published by Penguin Random House in India in 2004. The book features 25 stories of how children go to school in India.

  3. Urdu - Wikipedia

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    Urdu is taught as a compulsory subject up to higher secondary school in both English and Urdu medium school systems, which has produced millions of second-language Urdu speakers among people whose native language is one of the other languages of Pakistan – which in turn has led to the absorption of vocabulary from various regional Pakistani ...

  4. Education in Pakistan - Wikipedia

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    The language of instruction depends on the nature of the institution itself, whether it is an English-medium school or an Urdu-medium school. The City School in Karachi. As of 2009, Pakistan faces a net primary school attendance rate for both sexes of 66%, a figure below estimated world average of 90 per cent. [16]

  5. Free education - Wikipedia

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    Government would pay the fees, however parents were required to pay for the school uniform and other materials. [42] In Mali, free education implementation is a relatively recent phenomenon. Prior to the turn of the century, education was often too expensive for many families, leading to a high rate of illiteracy and educational inequity.

  6. Baumol effect - Wikipedia

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    An important implication of Baumol effect is that it should be expected that, in a world with technological progress, the costs of manufactured goods will tend to fall (as productivity in manufacturing continually increases) while the costs of labor-intensive services like education, legal services, and health care (where productivity growth is ...

  7. Pakistani textbooks controversy - Wikipedia

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    The new Single National Curriculum (SNC) policy is programming the brains of Pakistani children for a world other than the one they live in. [57] The practical implementation of a Single National Curriculum (SNC) has been publicized & made a part of the new syllabus of the Punjab School Education Department for grades one (1) through five (5 ...

  8. Pakistani diaspora - Wikipedia

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    Overseas Pakistanis (Urdu: بیرون ملک پاکستانی نژاد), or the Pakistani diaspora, refer to Pakistanis who live outside of Pakistan.These include citizens who have migrated to another country as well as people born abroad of Pakistani descent.

  9. Hindi–Urdu controversy - Wikipedia

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    Although the government at the time encouraged both Hindi and Urdu as a medium of education in school, it discouraged Hindi or the use of the Nagari script for official purposes. This policy gave rise to conflict between students educated in Hindi or Urdu for the competition of government jobs, which eventually took on a communal form.