Importance of education in the coming years is recognized as a necessary ingredient for sustainable economic growth. Education is seen as the key to better quality of life as well as a means of providing a new set of skills required for the future years.

According to the vision of the Quaid-e-Azam, scientific and technical education should be given to the people to compete with the fast-developing world. Sound education should be provided to the people to instill in them the highest sense of honor, integrity, responsibility, and selfless service to the nation. Investment in human capital prepares the critical mass of educated manpower on the one hand, and on the other hand prepares future leaders in various fields to steer successfully the country through thick and thin.

The Education Sector Reforms (ESR) in essence, build on the 1998-2010 Education Policy and thus are not a new policy innovation but an Action Plan for reform. The ESR is based on a long-term framework with a four year action plan for 2001-2005. The main features of the reform agenda are macro level reforms in planning, procedures, resource mobilization and utilization; sector wide approaches for reinforcement of linkages between sub-sectors (i.e. primary / elementary / non-formal literacy, secondary / technical, higher education and quality assurance structures); internally driven strategies and internally developed milestones for implementation of the ESR; a holistic basis for planning of human resource development in the country; the Social Action Program (SAP is integrated in this approach with 77% of the Action Plan covering SAP and all areas of Education For All (EFA); institutional reforms at all levels, i.e. federal, provincial and district levels to be triggered by the ESR; maximizing equal opportunities and reducing the gender gap at all levels of education; literacy through Education For All for a literate Pakistan is ensured by institution of comprehensive programs supported by the Compulsory Primary Education Ordinance and broad based institutional support; the delivery of quality education at all levels for improving the quality of social capital is to be achieved by rewarding expertise, providing access to improved teacher training programs, curriculum reforms and innovative projects.