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School Facilities Are Grooming Primary Schools Academic Performance in Pakistan: A Longitudinal Evidence from Punjab Province

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  • Sabika Khalid
  • Endale Tadesse
  • Chunhai Gao

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The Pakistan government is exhausted with the despicable rate of return from education. Punjab province took the preponderance amount of the budget for quality education due to the large population density. Thus, this study longitudinal study embraces the distribution and effectiveness of necessary facilities that consume most educational budgets through extensive analysis. Hence, the main finding indicated that the Punjab province showed a radical improvement in resource equity and student learning outcomes. However, the study noted that a lot has to be done to evaluate resources since significant improvements are observed, but not an achievement.

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  • Sabika Khalid & Endale Tadesse & Chunhai Gao, 2021. "School Facilities Are Grooming Primary Schools Academic Performance in Pakistan: A Longitudinal Evidence from Punjab Province," Asian Social Science, Canadian Center of Science and Education, vol. 17(1), pages 1-42, January.
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