Sci.Int.(Lahore),28(3), 2545-2550,2016 ISSN 1013-5316;CODEN: SINTE 8 2545 May-June HIGHER SECONDARY LEVEL STUDENT’S PERCEPTIONS ABOUT EDUCATION SYSTEM OF PAKISTAN Abdul Malik 1 , Zafar Iqbal Butt 2 , Iftikhar Ahmad Baig 3 , Khalid Rashid 3 , Nauman Saeed 2 , Muhammad Abdul Jabar Adnan 2 1 Depatrment of Education, University of Lahore 2 Department of Sport Sciences and Physical Education, University of the Punjab 3 Depatrment of Education, University of Lahore *Corresponding author’s E-mail: zafarbutt666@hotmail.com ABSTRACT: This study is meant for Higher Secondary Level Student’s Perception about system of Education in Pakistan. The objectives of the study were designed to achieve the targets and to know the higher secondary school students perception about objectives fulfilled by the current system of education at higher secondary school level. The national objectives and the extent to which these are being fulfilled. The international demands of education and up to what level the current system of education copes with it. Significance of the Research study would be significant because of its following dimensions; the study would divulge what makes us educate our children. Does the education enable the child to transform the information into knowledge, knowledge into wisdom and applying the same into living situation where it would be feasible and appropriate? The study would also make us know that with what sort of aspirations the students enter the educational institutions and to what level they are satisfied by the recurrent system. Assumptions, our teacher discharges his/her duties in a purposeful manner at higher secondary level, but the Learner is a bit slack. Nature of study was qualitative. Students were the respondents whose perceptions pertaining to system of education of Pakistan were procured. Survey was the media of data gathering. Population was all boys and girls from higher Secondary schools of Pakistan. Sampling, entire 960 male and 724 female students of higher secondary students were taken as Sample of the study. Questionnaire was used as a research tool. The prominent findings included; mostly respondents decided behavioral modification. Furthermore the respondents approved for getting a lucrative job. Recommendations made were that every student should be endowed with a vision to enable him/her to achieve the tangible targets of life. Key words: Perception. Current System, Transform. Satisfied, Pertaining. Behavioral modification, Lucrative INTRODUCTION Education and its intents have undergone drastic shifts over the span of time [1]. Earlier it has been the behavioral change in the recent past it took the shape of adjustment to the surroundings’ one is exposed to [2]. Currently the concept of education for the sake of education ceases to exist; it is for better living and adaptation, hence the continuing education sustains [3]. Education has been accepted as the right to education in the developed world and education as a birth right in the Muslim world. Very many efforts have been made in the name of policies and plans right from the emergence of Pakistan on the globe [4]. Father of nation Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah made a mention of universal primary education for the youth of the infant state of Pakistan [5]. .Quaid –e-Azam did not attend the first national conference on education held in Karachi in November, 1947, because of his ailing health but delivered a message to the than Education Minister Fazal ur Rehman, the same was read before the educationists/Decision makers of the time that the craze for free and compulsory education could not go beyond the theoretical dimensions because of financial constraints. The sentiments were put as, [6]. I am happy that the Pakistan Educational meeting is being held tomorrow in Karachi. I request all of you to the Capital of Pakistan and wish you each achievement in your opinion, which I authentically trust will bear creative and practical results. Likewise the following is the Quaid-e-Azam's message to the All Pakistan Educational Session held at Karachi on 27th November in 1947: [7]. You know that the significance of education and the correct type of education cannot be over-emphasized Under remote principle for over a century, in the very way of things, I mourn, sufficient deliberation has not been paid to the training of our kin, and in the event that we are to make any real, fast and openhanded advancement, we should truly handle this investigation and bring our informative policy and program on the appearance suitable to the expert of our kin, consonant with our history and society, and having look upon to the modern circumstances and enormous developments that have taken position all over the world. There is no hesitation that the future of our State will and must deeply depend upon the type of education and the direction in which we lift our children as the future hirelings of Pakistan. Instruction does not only mean learned preparation, and even that seems, by all financial records, to be of an enormously poor sort. What we need to do is to stimulate our kin and develop the character of our future eras. There is quick and critical obligation for preparing our kin in the investigative and technical education in order to maintain future [8]. The New National Education Policy, (NEP) 2009 comes in a sequence of education policies dating back to the very foundation of the country in 1947[9]. The initial National Educational Conference produced a concrete calculation of and in accumulation various yearning proposals indicative of the future objectives of training in Pakistan all the same, a number of its suggestions stayed in description surround just for the absence of institutional or financial assets to search for after them [10]. In 1959 National Commission on education was documented which recommended that education should be made obligatory up to primary level by the year 1969 and up to