Contributions of Rural to Urban Area’s Migration to Education in Rural Community: A Study in District Karak, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

Holy Prophet Muhammad Peace Be Upon has said that the attainment of education is obligatory for all Muslim males and for all Muslim females. Though, a lot of improvements in education sector are required in Pakistan - being a Muslim country. The contemporary state of education in any community is subject to multiple variant socio-cultural and economic factors. However, the core aim of this study has been to analyze positive impacts of rural to urban migration on society’s education. Therefore, for primary data collection, district Karak, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa was selected as sampling region. The first-hand data was collected through face-to-face interview from 100 married male respondents having at least 35 years’ age. Findings show that majority respondents viewed that the rural to urban migration has made significant contributions in improving state of education in study area. This inter-geographical movement and migration initiate factors like community’s increasing demand for education, ensuring qualified teachers’ presence, emphasizing teachers’ regularity and punctuality, and hard work by teachers etc. It is recommended that the individuals, groups, and communities shall be given with exposure to academically advanced communities.