PERCEPTION OF PEOPLE ABOUT GOVT. AND PRIVATE EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS IN DISTRICT KOTLI, AZAD KASHMIR

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.