Revised Curricula for Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) and classes 1 to 5 has been finalized by a working group of education specialists, curriculum experts, teachers and government officials under the auspices of Ministry of Federal Education and Professional Training here on Wednesday.
Final draft of curricula has been put up for the approval process in the Ministry and is expected to be approved and notified by end of this month. After notification, the process for textbook preparation will be started and new textbooks based on revised curriculum are expected to be developed by December this year.
Minister of State for Federal Education and Professional Training Engr. Baligh ur Rehman spearheaded and closely monitored the review process which was being actively pursued for the past few months. He had issued special guidelines that the new curriculum should also concentrate on ethical values and civil conduct and the material should also focus on health and hygiene; civic sense and global citizenship; environmental protection and energy conservation; democratic culture, national harmony; tolerance and respect for diversity. In a statement Minster said that government is placing huge emphasis on improving the quality of education and research in the country and the curriculum review project is a step forward in that direction. “Ministry is undertaking curriculum review to match the modern international education standards”, he said.
Eight subject specialist committees coprising of 10 members were responsible for curricula review and revision. Subject Groups reviewed and revised in the exercise include: ECCE (Pre-primary education), languages (Urdu and English), General Science, General Knowledge, Social Studies, Mathematics and Islamic Studies.
It may be noted that earlier in May, Minister had launched Curriculum for Accelerated Learning Programme (ALP) which the Ministry of Federal Education had developed in collaboration with Japan International Cooperation Agency, JICA. The curriculum under ALP offers complete primary education equivalent of upto class 5 to out-of-school children in short time of less than 3 years (32months). The program particularly caters to those children who have crossed the primary school going age and have missed their early years of schooling due to poor socio-economic backgrounds, religious and ethnic compulsions, poor results, physical or mental challenges etc.
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