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Webdesk: The recent Matric exam results in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa demonstrate a staggering failure of the public education system in the province. Despite repeated declarations of reforms and successes, the latest results show the level of complete failure in terms of educational performance. The outcome of the government schools reveals the failure on a scale that can not be mitigated by policy rhymes or statistical averages. The Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education Peshawar also reported the overall pass rate of 83.5 per cent. But this figure covers those students in private schools who make it appear that there is no bad situation in government schools. As a matter of fact, government schools in the province have catastrophic failure rates that have been registered in scores. There were cases where classrooms as a whole failed. In the others, none or few students managed to pass. It is not just the remote areas that experience these consequences, but also schools in the capital of the province. According to the Matric exam results, only 151 out of 739 students of 29 government schools under the Peshawar board passed. At the Government Higher Secondary School Bivori in Chitral, none of the students passed the exam. All 18 girls in the Government Girls Higher Secondary School, Haryana Payan in Peshawar failed. The same outcomes were registered in Daman Afghani, with 33 of 35 girls failing. Rujar School of Charsadda had an exam success of just 2 passes out of 13 students. Arson, Berum, Bang and Shikadi had schools where the failure rates were up to 80 per cent and 90 per cent. The Matric exam results were also alarming in Peshawar city. Government Shaheed Saqib Ghani School only provided 18 per cent results, where 84 out of 102 students failed. At the Haji Banda Higher Secondary School 13 out of 14 students failed. Of 76 students, there were only 5 who passed at Mashoggagar School. It is not by chance that the collapse is corroborated by statistics recorded by the various educational boards in KP, such as Mardan, Malakand, DI Khan, Swat and Abbottabad. There were 845 government schools with less than 50 per cent pass according to Matric exam results. Among them, 126 of the schools had a pass rate of less than ten per cent. None of the students in 44 schools passed. In 736 schools, over 80 per cent of the students failed their matric exams as an internal report showed. There was a 100 per cent failure rate in 82 schools as per the Matric exam results. It is not the issue of academic performance only; It is structural. The teaching vacancies in boys’ schools and girls’ schools amount to more than 11700 and 9400, respectively. There are more than 200 schools that do not have a principal. Teachers are made to take charge of various grades, in most instances, inadequately trained and without sufficient support in most regions. To curb the Matric exam results crisis, the KP government has declared that it will privatise management of up to 1,500 failing schools to any organisation through partnerships combining provisions of both state and privately managed schools in what is being referred to as a public and private partnership. This forms part of the so-called Good Governance Map. As the action is meant to enhance accountability and result, critics state that outsourcing does not address the problem, which results in underfunding, lack of monitoring and systemic negligence. The crisis is not restricted to the low performance results. An independent report published in May 2025 showed that there are almost 4.92 million out-of-school children in KP. This is 37 per cent of all the children in the province. Most of them are rural and underprivileged. This is not something that can be easily patched. Unless there is a serious investment in training teachers, developing the infrastructure, modernising curriculum and accountability at the administrative level, outsourcing schools can be a solution, only in the short run. The province is on the brink of giving rise to an entire generation with low education and very few career opportunities. There is a real-time collapse of education, and the figures are not only disastrous. They are devastating. This is not the time to make another announcement of another policy, but the time to muster political will, long-term planning and a will to save the future of the children of KP.

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