PAKISTAN

PRIORITIZING
Quality of Education
“The only real voyage of
discovery consists not in
seeing new landscapes,
but in having new eyes,
in seeing the universe
with the eyes of another,
of hundreds of others, in
seeing the hundreds of
universes that each of
them sees.”
Marcel Proust,
1871-1922
In the Education Department at The Citizens Foundation, we
believe we are part of the voyage of discovery of every child
who enters our system of education and we endeavor to see
the universe from their eyes as well as equip them to see
hundreds of new universes as they move through their
academic journey.
academic hours have been introduced, which add value to
students whose parents cannot afford tuition outside school
and also bring the number of academic hours more in line
with other school systems in the country.
The Barbell Approach
In 2014-15, TCF adopted a barbell or two-end approach to
enhance student learning outcomes. On the one hand, at the
foundational level, Nursery and Kindergarten curricula were
delineated so that separate and specific focus could be
brought to bear on their different needs and requirements.
This included the Nursery pilot project in four areas where
children came from non-Urdu speaking backgrounds.
At the same time, effort went into raising the performance of
Grade 9 and 10 students to improve their Board Examination
results. Summer tutorials and special classes for Mathematics
and Sciences were arranged. The results of this focused effort
is beginning to reflect in the students’ academic
achievements – overall pass percentage for Grade 10 was
90% and the percentage of students securing ‘A’ and ‘A+’
grades increased from 38% in the previous year to 43%
this year.
For the TCF school system as a whole, 126 additional
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