The Need for Science Literacy
Pakistan ranks 91st among the 133 economies featured in the Global Innovation Index 2024. The two major reasons for this are the poor standards of science education in our institutions and the low percentage of GDP spent on science and development. The impact of technological advancements across the world have also been greatly felt in Pakistan with the need to invest more in technology, innovation, and quality education gaining immediacy.
Being the financial and industrial hub of the country, Karachi is in dire need of encouraging its youth to achieve higher levels of education, especially professional college education in the fields of STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics).
Given the dissatisfactory state of science education in Pakistan, The Dawood Foundation (TDF) has been instrumental in organising the country’s largest science exhibitions and developing TDF MagnifiScience Children’s Studio. Thereafter we established Pakistan's first-ever contemporary and interactive science centre in 2021 - TDF MagnifiScience Centre, which to date is one of its kind.
Given the dissatisfactory state of science education in Pakistan, The Dawood Foundation (TDF) has been instrumental in organizing the country’s largest science exhibitions and establishing Pakistan’s first children’s science studio—TDF MagnifiScience Children’s Studio.
