Episode 189 - Teach for Pakistan - Solving Pakistan’s Education Crisis

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Uzair talks to Khadija Shahper Bakhtiar about Teach for Pakistan and the organization’s mission and vision. The conversation also focuses on the fellowship program being run by the organization and the key challenges facing Pakistan’s education sector. Khadija Shahper Bakhtiar is the Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Teach For Pakistan, a national nonprofit organization that nurtures leadership to end educational inequity. Teach For Pakistan provides inspired university graduates the opportunity and support to teach for two years in low-income communities through a structured Fellowship program and develop the leadership skills and contextual understandings to affect long-term, system-wide reform for educational equity. You can learn more about the fellowship here - https://iteachforpakistan.org Reading recommendations: - The Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire Chapters: 0:00 Introduction 2:40 What is Teach for Pakistan? 10:10 What is the fellowship program? 17:20 How do fellows help improve outcomes? 23:30 Key criteria for fellows 27:55 Major issues in education 34:00 Devolving education 40:44 Focus areas for governments 46:30 Reading recommendations