TEACHER TRAINING, PROBLEMS AND THE CHALLENGES: A COMPARATIVE STUDY BETWEEN INDIA AND PAKISTAN

Abstract

Teachers are our greatest public servants; they spend their lives educating our young people and shaping our Nation for tomorrow. Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students (Ortiz, 2006). The central aim of the paper is an attempt to explore the importance of education, and teacher training program as well as also problems and challenges faces by the education sectors in India and Pakistan. The results reveal that education is always imperative, while teacher training is indispensable for overall success and development of any country. The statistics demonstrates that India is spending more income on education comparing to Pakistan over the past 43 years. However, several challenges are there such as lack of access to education; poor quality of education; weak governance; budget constraint; lack of library, lack of laboratory; lack of motivation; and lack of infrastructure etc. These findings have some important implications for the policy makers of both countries.