Ministry of Federal Education and Professional Training

STEAM PAKISTAN

STEAM PAKISTAN

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STEAM Pakistan is a multi-tiered programme that intends to improve STEAM education for children across Pakistan, particularly in government schools and girls historically at a disadvantage. The programme will priorities gender transformation throughout all its streams.

STEAM Pakistan works in partnership with the federal and provincial governments, development partners, public-private partnerships, and non-profits to design and implement interventions to improve the following:

Gender equity in both, access to and quality of STEAM education in government schools
Learning, access to activity-based learning, and scientific inquiry and thought in schools
Access to mentorship, role-models, and careers
Teacher capacity and support systems
Governance and delivery of STEAM education

WHAT WE HOPE TO ACHIEVE

By 2027 STEAM Pakistan intends to achieve the following outcomes for gender-transformative STEAM education across Pakistan:

All government high schools (13,000+) across the country transformed through the STEAM Pakistan School Partnership Journey
Enhanced professional capacity of at least 100,000 teachers
Improved STEAM learning for 5 million students

HOW WE WORK

Policy Reforms

STEAM Pakistan hosts policy units in Islamabad Capital Territory, Punjab, Sindh, and Gilgit Baltistan. These policy units work within respective government departments in the province/territory to improve technical capacity of departments, schools, and teachers at all levels. These units also spearhead STEAM program within their jurisdictions, convening partners, influential policy makers, etc. as necessary. STEAM Pakistan is also working with data/research partners to improve the repository of information that should inform action all the way down to the classrooms.

School Partnership Journey

Partnerships with schools are being established to transform government secondary schools into centers for excellence in gender transformative STEAM education. These partnerships seek to empower head teachers, teachers and students to implement a 10-level journey for this transformation. The ‘levels’ follow a scaffolded approach and build on each other. Moving through the levels requires schools to register using a portal, basic reporting requirements, establishment of student STEAM clubs and more.

The School Journey enables schools to register with STEAM Pakistan as partners, establish a STEAM club within the school with students as members, and gain access to peer-support and training.

Organisation Partnerships

STEAM Pakistan is building partnerships to leverage the wider community with a focus to embed partners’ stake into the larger ecosystem supporting schools. Partnerships with the professional community in Pakistan are integral to this program in order to bring about lasting improvement in STEAM education outcomes at all levels, particularly for girls. STEAM Pakistan is building partnerships with corporations, universities, and non-profit organizations to work towards our program goal.

Corporate partnerships are being established in order to engage skilled professionals in school-based STEAM learning for all students, especially girls. Corporate partners are working to conduct Safeer sessions - guest talks by their employees, especially women in STEAM and leadership roles - increasingly independently facilitated by their own HR or CSR departments. In the future, we also expect partners to invest in deeper mentorships programs, field trips of workplaces and production facilities, as well as campaigns to engage the larger school community through exciting STEAM activities. In the long-term, the program hopes to empower schools to reach out for support as they require, and for corporate partners to have an emotional and practical stake in STEAM outcomes for government school students.

University Partnerships

University partnerships have been developed so that faculty and students can not only support existing program activities but also help establish the university as a center of STEAM outreach to schools in multiple ways. These can include hosting teacher support hubs (teachers’ baithaks), university campus visits for government school students, hosting and supporting STEAM club activities, conducting Maths Circles, visiting classrooms to give interactive STEAM talks as STEAM ambassadors, and hosting hackathons or bootcamps.