Teaching is a prophetic profession. It requires a considerable amount of professional knowledge and skills that allows any individual to become a competent teacher and play his role successfully in the school environment. The government of KP recently gave an open opportunity for everyone to apply on each and every teaching cadre/posts of teaching without having the professional degree. The purpose of study was to explore, compare and explain the concerns of stakeholders (professional degree holders) regarding this new recruitment policy for all cadres in district D.I.Khan. The mixed method, convergent parallel design was used for the study. Closed ended questionnaire on five point Likert scale (n=202) and semi-structured, open ended interview (n=12) as a tool was used for the study. Concerns regarding needs/importance of professional degree, dropping out professional degree and acceptance of policy were pointed out.

Study of SocioEconomic Background and its Effect on the Ability of English Reading Skills at Secondary School Level The study aims to see the effect of the socioeconomic background of learners on their language skills of 9th class students in public sector schools in southern districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The Stratified simple random sampling technique was adopted following Krejcie and Morgan rule and 379 respondents were consulted for data collection. Two valid and reliable instruments were applied, first, the socioeconomic status scale and then test were conducted for finding ability in reading skills i.e. comprehension, fluency, identification of adverb, to skim and to scan the passages. Data was analyzed through mean; for checking the outcome of SE background on the reading skills, the mean of means was calculated. The students who have a supportive environment at home for English performed better in test scores of comprehension, fluency, adverb identification, skimming and scanning. The study recommends that students may be supported at home for polishing their reading skills.

The aim of the study was the work culture of public and private secondary schools of southern Punjab. The main objective of the study was to know the work culture of the public and private secondary schools of southern Punjab concerning school performance and teamwork. The study adopted a quantitative design and survey method for data collection. The population of the study has consisted of 40940 teachers of southern Punjab. 471 teachers were selected by using simple random sampling. A valid and reliable research tool was used for data collection. The researcher personally visited the high school of both the sector for the intentions of data collection from sampled teachers. The gathered data were fed in the SPSS matrix sheet. The fed data were analyzed by using statistics i.e. mean, standard deviation, and independent t-test. It was found that public schools culture better than private schools in terms of school performance and teamwork. Therefore it was further concluded that public schools possessed familiar work culture than private in the southern area of Punjab.

The research study is narrative and it aims to see perceptions of school heads about the role of community in improving the quality of education at secondary school level in the southern seven districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The region is in a developing stage and badly affected by war and terror after 9/11. The total population of the study is 544 and 105 respondents were selected through a random sampling technique by taking 15 school heads from each district. Twelve open-ended questions were selected in light of the views of experts and were asked from the majority of respondents via face to face and some were interviewed through their cell phones. The responses were presented in narrative summary form and the study concluded that the community is supporting school authority for streamlining quality education but its role is less than the desired expectation. The school authority should adopt a flexible policy for the motivation of the community and ensuring their maximum participation in the school matters.