A Critical Evaluation of PEELI Project Run by the Punjab Government of Pakistan and British Council

The quality of the infrastructure and educational system is epitome of every nation’s economy, social integration and development. PEELI is a ray of hope from the slumbering system of education to receive first-class training to enhance the contents of teachers training, expand the quality of teacher’s pedagogy, and instruction of use of English language in a classroom for better professional and academics hierarchy in primary level of education in Punjab. The quality of education builds and depends on the relevance, quality and rigor of available educational research. Moreover, medium of instruction and teacher training plays a pivotal role in any nati on’s educational system. It shows the academic progression of the teachers and learners. No one can deny the significance of English language and pedagogical skills in any educational institute. This study aims to emphasize and focus that all the skills of English language are equally important to turn the table in any educational system. This study aims the related training program such as PEELI (Punjab Educational English Language Initiative). It is an academic five years project of Punjab government in collaboration with British Council, which had started in 2013. The central objective of the study is to critically evaluate the effectiveness of the teacher-training program (PEELI) offered by British Council and Punjab government. However, this study followed mixed method research to conduct empirical and thematic analysis of the data. The findings have reported that proper training mechanism of teacher will ultimately upsurge their performance in educational context. While such performance is positively influenced by the PEELI initiative.