ISSN: 2186-8492, ISSN: 2186-8484 Print Vol. 2. No. 1. February 2013 ASIAN JOURNAL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES & HUMANITIES www.ajssh.leena-luna.co.jp 222 | Page Leena and Luna International, Oyama, Japan. Copyright © 2013 PERCEPTION OF PEOPLE ABOUT GOVT. AND PRIVATE EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS IN DISTRICT KOTLI, AZAD KASHMIR Syed Masroor Anwar 1 , Kamran Abbas 2 , Mohammad Zakira 3 , Muhammad Basharat 4 , A. Qadeer Khan 5 , Syed Shujahat Bukhari 6 1, 2, 4 Department of Statistics, 5 Department of Mathematics and 6 Department of Physics, Azad Jammu and Kashmir University, Muzaffarabad, & 3 Allma Iqbal Open University, Islamabad, PAKSITAN. 1 masroor_anwar2001@yahoo.com ABSTRACT Considerable research has been undertaken on the perception of people in district Kotli (Azad Kashmir) about the Govt. and private sector education institutions. A random sample of 400 parents/guardians had taken from district Kotli (Azad Kashmir) with stratified random sampling. SPSS was used for analysis of data. The graphical method, descriptive statistics, Chi-square test of association and Mann- Whitney U test was applied. People prefer private sector institutions as compared to the Govt. sector institutions because in the private sector syllabus is more up to dated and teaching staff is more regular and friendly. The teaching staffs in private sector make more efforts to the students as compared to the govt. sector. Fee structure of private institutions is very high and there is deficiency of sports activities in private institutions as compared to Govt. institutions. There is association of more qualified staff with i) confidence level of the student’s ii) successful life in future. Students from private sector proved to be more successful in future and they have the better chance for job in public offices. Keywords: Public, perception, institution. INTRODUCTION Education is a vehicle for imparting facts and feelings, information, passion, understanding and appreciation to human beings. In Pakistan there are two broad categories of education that are formal and informal education. A formal education program is the process of training and developing people in knowledge, skills, mind, and character in a structured and certified program. Teaching refers to learning with a view toward preparing learners with special knowledge, skills or abilities that can be applied immediately upon completion. In our study we focused on public sector and private sector education system in Azad Kashmir, district Kotli. Ayyash-Abdo, et al.(2010) conducted the status of school counseling in Lebanon. An overview that pointed out some weakness in the educational system, such as high dropout and repetition rates, was presented. A sample of school counselors in public and private schools were surveyed. Private school counselors reported fewer stressors and more rewards than did their counterparts in public schools. In Indonesia, Welch (2007) make a study about the balance of public and private higher education had shifted sharply over the last two decades. While the private system education had been responsible for much of the expansion in higher education, its role in relation to quality was more questionable. In Mexico's recent history is reviewed, showed that the role of private and public sectors in the higher education system, focusing on how policies to modernize education have redefined public and private space in education. The old discourse that assumed that private higher education should not be evaluated, nor assigned particular responsibilities in national development, needs to be reconsidered. The public nature of education validates its social