Challenging the myths about madaris in Pakistan: A national household survey of enrolment and reasons for choosing religious schools

Anne Cockcroft; Neil Andersson; Deborah Milne; Khalid Omer; Noor Ansari; Amir Khan; Ubaid Ullah Chaudhry

International Journal of Educational Development Vol. 29, No. 4 pp. 342–349

There is speculation about madaris in Pakistan as sources of terrorists and about levels and reasons for enrolment, but a dearth of empirical data. We studied madarsah enrolment among 53,960 representative households; 853 focus groups of parents...

Language: English