Tuesday, June 07, 2005

REFORMING PAKISTAN'S EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM

REFORMING PAKISTAN'S EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM: THE CHALLENGE
OF THE MADRASSAS
R. Looney

Journal of Social, Political and Economic Studies,
vol. 28, 2003, p.257-274

Westernised middle- and upper-class families in
Pakistan send their children to mainly
nondenominational private schools. The poor have to
choose between inadequately funded state schools and
the Madrassas (Islamic religious schools). Author
argues that these are a fount of Islamic
fundamentalism in that country, and a possible source
of recruits to Islamic terrorist organisations.
Describes various attempts by the government to
regulate the Madrassas.

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