The Punjab Education & English Language Initiative (PEELI) will assist the School Education Department (SED) of the Government of Punjab (GoP) in Pakistan to achieve significant and structural improvements in the ability of 300,000 Primary (Grades 1-5) and Middle school (Grades 6-8) teachers to use English and, where appropriate, deploy English language skills as part of its English Medium of Instruction (MoI) policy. The project will run from 2013-2018 (5 years) in close partnership with GoP Education agencies and a set of international stakeholders working in the broader Education sector. It is expected that by 2018 the outputs of the project will be fully embedded in the teacher education framework of the Punjab Strategy for Teacher Education, as part of its wider Punjab School Education Sector Plan. Specifically the proposal is to

• improve the ability of all Primary teachers to be able to teach English as a foreign language.
• improve the English language skills of subject specialist Middle school teachers of English, Maths and Sciences (including Computer Sciences).
• Improve the classrooms teaching skills of Middle school subject specialists in English, Maths and Sciences to be able to teach through the medium of English.

VISION

PEELI puts English at the heart of a world-class education system in Punjab. By 2018, all children (~15,000,000) enrolled in public and PEF schools across Punjab will be receiving high quality English language teaching and reaching internationally comparable attainment levels for the learning of English to Grade 5. Beyond Grade 5 all subject specialist teachers in Maths, Science, English and Computer Sciences will have received training and had the opportunity to achieve certification in English medium education (EME), with rising levels of attainment attributed to improved standards of English medium teaching. The British Council will be recognised as contributing in a significant way to raising quality standards in teaching using English as a medium, and specifically to the successful implementation of the Punjab School Education Sector Plan and Punjab Strategy for Teacher Education.

This approach accords with British Council Pakistan’s New Vision strategy of:

• Imagining the Future-by using ground breaking research & thought leadership to add value to policy making and democratisation around the use of English in the School Education Department.
• Preparing for the Future-by enabling teachers to develop their skills to deliver world class levels of teaching.
• Shaping the Future-by ensuring that PEELI INSETT, CPD and certification systems are embedded in government education policy.
• Scale- by achieving a step-change in the transformation of the use of English in schools in Punjab.

ACTIVITIES

PEELI THEORY OF CHANGE