Investigating the core factors behind implementation gaps in educational policies of Pakistan

The research paper intends to investigate the core reasons behind the implementation gaps that exist within the educational policies of Pakistan. The research paper takes a qualitative research approach and presents a concise overview of the related literature to provide an insight over the issues that have been creating footraces in the way of educational policy implementation. The research finds that there are some critical obstructive areas like mismanagement of financial resources, ideological differences among various ruling elite, lack of political will, low quality level of teachers training, corrupt system, minimum follow ups, weak monitoring system, deprived policy evaluations and absence of visionary leadership that have jointly worked to create flaws within the education system that in turn has created several gaps in the implementation of the educational policies. The research also finds that there has been no systematic continuality in the formulation of educational policies that has drawn obvious impacts upon the implementation process as well. The research concludes that the Pakistani sector is not facing the real problem in the policy formulation areas because on paper the educational sector has ideal policies documented from time to time but the actual problem exists in form of gaps that are found in the implementation of these policies created by the above mentioned factors.