Gulbaz Ali Khan, Muhammad Azhar and Syed Asghar
Shah
July 2011

The high rate of
drop outs in Pakistan is a
cause for concern and it means that social and public policies have to
be realigned to tackle this important issue. Although there are many
reasons for children dropping out of school as given in various studies
on the subject, this paper tries to explore the reasons from the
perspective of girls’ parents, teachers and students. The findings in
this paper are drawn from a research study on drop outs in Pakistan
based on the
country wide data collected from four provinces, Azad
Jammu and Kashmir and the federal capitals.
Data was compiled and analyzed by using simple descriptive methods. The
major
reasons behind drop outs will be discussed at the end of the paper with
recommendations on how to tackle the issue of high drop out rates