Causes of Students’ Dropout in Public Secondary Schools of Balochistan, Pakistan

Abstract

The study was determined to investigate the causes of secondary school dropouts in the district of Kech Balochistan. The main objective of the study was to find out the reasons behind the dropouts of secondary school students. A sample is taken from the population, of 30 teachers, 15 head teachers of public secondary schools, and 60 students with their parents were selected as a random sample for the research study. All the data were analysed by the use of SPSS. The findings of the study revealed that parents’ weak monitoring, parents' socio-economic status, transportation problems, parents’ migration, teachers' harsh behaviour, corporal punishment, and no preparation for exams, are the causes of students’ dropout at the secondary school level. On the basis of the findings, it was recommended that the government should take an initiative to conduct awareness programme with help of electronic and print media to reduce the students’ dropout rate in district Kech, Balochistan.