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A Study to Investigate the Availability of Educational Facilities at the Secondary School Level in District Karak

Ishtiaq Hussain, Ph.D.
Maqsood Ahmed, M.Phil. (Education)
Sarfraz Ahmad, M.Phil. (Education)
Qaiser Suleman, M.Phil. (Education) Scholar
M Qamar ud Din, M.Phil. (Education) Scholar
Naila Khalid, M.Phil. (Education) Scholar

ABSTRACT

Educational facilities play a crucial role in strengthening and improving the quality of education. Therefore, the study in hand was conducted to investigate the availability of educational facilities at the secondary level in District Karak, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.

The objectives of the study were: (a) to investigate the availability of educational facilities at the secondary school level, (b) to explore the causes of poor availability of educational facilities at the secondary school level and (c) to suggest proper ways and means to ensure the availability of educational facilities at the secondary school level. All the heads, teachers and students working and studying at the secondary school level in district Karak, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (Pakistan) constituted the population of the study. The study was delimited to the selected 60 male secondary schools in district Karak. The study was further delimited to the teachers and students teaching and studying in secondary classes. In order to ensure adequate representation of population, only 60 heads, 125 secondary school teachers and 680 secondary school students (@ 100%, 75% and 10% respectively) were selected randomly.

The study was descriptive in nature. A questionnaire was developed as a research instrument for the collection of data. Pilot testing was conducted to remove the weakness, ambiguities and misconceptions of the questions. After pilot testing the questionnaire was revised and its final version was developed and prepared. In order to collect data, the researchers personally visited to the respective participants and distributed questionnaires among them and collected data. Then it was organized, tabulated and analyzed. Percentage was used as a statistical tool for the statistical treatment of the data.

After analysis of the data, the researchers arrived at the conclusion that educational facilities were not available in the schools at the secondary level which is the main obstruction and hindrance in acquiring quality education. The study further revealed that corruption, ineffective educational policies, poor implementation of policies, lack of check and balance system, inadequate budget for education, poor management system, and political inference are the main factors which are responsible for the poor availability of educational facilities at the secondary level in District Karak.

KEYWORDS: Secondary level, educational facilities, availability of educational facilities

INTRODUCTION

Secondary education occupies the most important and critical position in any educational system. The position of secondary education is generally paradoxical in any society. It is expected that secondary education will play a transitional role between basic education and further (higher) education as well as to play a terminal role by providing and supplying required manpower for the development of the country (AIOU, 1998, p.3).

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Ishtiaq Hussain, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Institute of Education and Research
Kohat University of Science & Technology
Kohat, Pakistan
dr.ishtiaqhussain@yahoo.com

Maqsood Ahmed, M.Phil. (Education)
Institute of Education and Research
Kohat University of Science & Technology
Kohat, Pakistan
maqsood517@yahoo.com

Sarfraz Ahmad, M.Phil. (Education)
Institute of Education and Research
Kohat University of Science & Technology
Kohat, Pakistan
sarfraz206@yahoo.com

Qaiser Suleman, M.Phil. (Education) Scholar
Institute of Education and Research
Kohat University of Science & Technology
Kohat, Pakistan
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M Qamar ud Din, M.Phil. (Education) Scholar
Institute of Education and Research
Kohat University of Science & Technology
Kohat, Pakistan
qamar.uddin@yahoo.com

Naila Khalid, M.Phil (Education) Scholar
Institute of Education and Research
Kohat University of Science & Technology
Kohat, Pakistan
naila_khalid@yahoo.com
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