2. Shortage of higher education

The shortage of higher education and advanced skills in the trades & technology areas have identified as one of the economic challenges facing Multan and Pakistan. Government of Pakistan and international reports indicates the Multan labor force has a low level of completed formal education (49.8% compared to 58.8% Pakistani average). It goes on to indicate that “a highly skilled women force is a necessary condition for economic growth and prosperity.” Responding to the needs of the south Punjab region identified by a feasibility study and industry consultations.

2. Restricted girls education

Girls’ access to education in Pakistan has been restricted. Despite improvements in the last 20 years, underlying factors still make the state education system inefficient and must be addressed if girls’ access to education is to be ensured. The current male to female literacy ratio is still at 65:40. 

2. Low girl’s enrolment

Lower enrolment and retention rates among girls in Pakistan are usually wrongly assumed to be a result of religious and cultural practices that restrict demand for female education. Widespread acceptance of schools or colleges established by non-state actors, such as non-governmental organizations (NGOs) including YLPP 12 schools or religious groups in remote areas, prove that even conservative communities are willing to send girls to educational institutions if their needs are met. Having educational institutions close to homes, timings that accommodate other demands on girls’ time, child-centered teaching methods and vocational education appeal to these communities. 

2. Girls’ Post-Secondary Education

However, even all this does not guarantee girls’ post-secondary education, in either rural or urban areas. Recent research from the University of Oxford, in the UK, found that in a government school supported by an NGO, mothers said, “Our girls cry all the time because they want to continue their education but there is no college in the area, and it is not safe to travel long distances.” For some of these girls, madras’s – Islamic schools which provide residential facilities – become a more accessible option. Most female madrasa students join this system after completing secondary or higher secondary education in the secular education system. However, this is not the only reason for the rapidly expanding female madras’s, which are over 3,000 in number. Many students join madras’s due to conscious preference for Islamic education. 

3. Solutions for educational system

1. Estimating the value of education, the government should take solid steps on this issue. Implementation instead of projecting policies should be focused on. Allocation of funds should be made easy from provinces to districts and then to educational institutes. Workshops must be arranged for teachers. Foreign states are using lss system. This should be inducted in Pakistani schools to improve the hidden qualities of children. Technical education must be given to all the classes. The education board of Punjab has projected a plan to give tech- education to the children of industrial workers. Promotion of the primary education is the need of time. Teachers, professors and educationists should be consulted while devising any plan, syllabus or policy. The state seems to give up her responsibility and totally relying on private sector. The need of time is to bring education in its original form to masses. Burdening students with so many books will not work as he will not understand what the world is going to do next moment. Education is the only cure of the instability in the state and can bring revolution through evolution, by eradicating the social evils. This is how to remove illiteracy in Pakistan.

• Prioritizing education sector reforms, and increasing budgetary allocations to the sector

• Making state schools geographically accessible 

• Exploring options to extend community-based primary education models to secondary level 

• Considering giving incentives for private schools to open in areas where the state cannot expand 

2. YLP has developed a concept design for a residence girl’s college. Investing in and establish Union Women College would provide increased literacy rate and capacity to deliver trades and technology training directly to meet the educational and industry demands and would create jobs today and support training for employment opportunities and the labor force tomorrow. The Board of Directors of Young League Pakistan needs to invest in Union Women College in order to attract, develop and retain people to sustain and grow the education and economy.

3. YLP has long standing traditions of consistent, high rate academic and co-curricular activities. The students and teachers of YLP 12 schools have done pioneering work. YLP schools thus provide ample opportunities to students to discover themselves, to realize their potential and prepare them for the challenges of life.

4. Based on the decades old expertise of 12 YLP schools in these domains, a state-of-the-art institute of social science will be established in the next five years which will cater to the training of youth in social work, anchoring and news reading, documentary making etc. This rich extracurricular and co-curricular background contributes in the development of bright and talented students who join different professional backgrounds and proceeds for higher studies on scholarships.

5. The primary target population group for young league Pakistan is children (from birth to 16 years of age) and their families. This group has been identified as the fastest growing segment of the population that needs girl’s college services. The impact of food assistance is most critical during the first five years of a child's life. Children ages birth to five years of age represent 50% of the children served by the program.