A meeting was
held at the Committee Room of Ministry of Federal Education and Professional
Training on Thursday regarding development of
textbooks for schools in Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) on the basis of revised
curriculum of 2017 for Pre-I to class V.
The meeting
was co-chaired by Federal Minister for Education and Professional Training
Engr. Muhammad Baligh Ur Rehman and Minister of State for Capital
Administration and Development Division (CADD) Tariq Fazal Chaudhry.
Ministry of
Federal Education and Professional Training in collaboration with CADD will
develop textbooks for Pre-I to class V on basis of revised curriculum 2017. Joint
Education Advisor, Rafique Tahir briefed the meeting about the roadmap for the
development of the textbooks in collaboration with CADD. Both the ministries
agreed on the roadmap. The meeting decided that a committee will be constituted
comprising experts to finalize the publisher for textbook development. The
textbooks will be available for next academic session (March 2018).
The meeting
also decided that National Book Foundation will publish textbooks for class 6
to 12 as per pervious practice for next academic session. It may be noted that
Ministry of Federal Education and Professional Training earlier constituted
eight Subject Committees in collaboration with CADD to revise National
Curriculum of 2006 for Pre-I to Class V. The Committees accordingly revised
National Curriculum 2006 in subjects including ECCE (Early Childhood Cared and
Education), English, Urdu, Mathematics, General Knowledge, Islamiat, Social
Studies and General Science.
The meeting
was attended by Additional Secretaries of Ministry of Federal Education and
Professional Training, and CADD, DG FDE, Advisor to PM on Education Reforms, MD
National Book Foundation and other relevant officers.
