Impact of Quality Education and Tangibles of Education system on Literacy Improvement- An Empirical study of Southern Punjab Region of Pakistan

Abstract

In the case of a firm or a nation's lack of familiarity with the surroundings, changes occurring with the passage of time and lack of ability to adapt or cope with the changes around the globe draw you back and snatch the capability of fighting at the front with the global challenges. In under developing and a few developing countries literacy has been their core issue while comparing them with the other nations of the world. The current study targeted the Public and Private sector educational institutions of South Region of Province Punjab of Pakistan. Institutions that were considered as the population of the study comprised of the strength of students who were unable to be accounted for the collection of data. The sample size of 200 was selected based on the collection of data from prominent or senior students from all the selected institutes. Secondary data in the shape of statistical reports selected from the annual education reports were capitalized to strengthen the literature review while a survey questionnaire was applied to obtain the responses from the students of the different institutes.
Results were obtained through SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Sciences). Reliability Statistics, Factor Analysis and Correlation analysis were applied to the data to judge its strength, evaluation by respondents and capability to influence each other through their values of interrelation. The results of the data analysis provide full support to the annual educational reports so, supporting the activities done by the Government of Pakistan for promotion and development of Literacy. It was recommended that the role of other dimensions of higher and quality education like (competency, attitude, delivery &reliability) can be applied to analyze their role in influencing the level of literacy.