National Curriculum Summit will promote shift towards critical thinking-based learning

The government has decided to organise a National Curriculum Summit with all essential stakeholders in order to alter the paradigm from memorising to critical thinking learning.

Rana Tanveer Hussain, the Federal Minister for Education and Professional Training, called a high-level meeting at the ministry and received an update on the activities of the National Curriculum Council (NCC), with a particular focus on the establishment of a unified curriculum. Ahsan Iqbal, the Federal Minister for Planning, Development and Special Initiatives, was invited to the meeting on a special basis.

Both ministers were given a thorough briefing on the 2017 National Curriculum Framework, the 2017 draught education policy, as well as the Single National Curriculum (SNC) and the previous administration's goals.

Given the importance of a unified curriculum, both ministers decided to convene a National Curriculum Summit, at which all stakeholders and curriculum experts from the public and private sectors from around the country will contribute their opinion for revision and a broader agreement on the subject. The entire curriculum, it was decided, required a paradigm shift from memorization-based learning to critical thinking and group learning.

Curriculum Reforms, Exam Reforms, Madrassa Reforms, and Teachers Training Program, according to Ahsan Iqbal, were all launched by the PML-N in the past. He pledged the Planning Ministry's ongoing support for major education-related projects aimed at modernising the public school system.