Sindh: National Curriculum will include Mathematics, Science, Computers & English

The Sindh government is ready to incorporate mathematics, science, computers and English into the national curriculum, the provincial education minister announced in front of the federal minister.

A moral curriculum equivalent to Islam is being developed under the National Curriculum of Pakistan. It is being implemented first in Sindh, while a mathematics, science, computer science and English curriculum is also being adopted in Sindh under the National Curriculum of Pakistan.

At a local hotel in Karachi, the National Curriculum of Pakistan and the Teacher Professional Development Program were launched. It was addressed by the federal education minister, Rana Tanveer Hussain, and the Sindh education minister, Sardar Shah, as well as the director of the National Curriculum Council, Maryam Chaghtai, and Dr Fauzia Khan, the head of the Sindh Curriculum Wing.

The Single National Curriculum has been renamed the National Curriculum of Pakistan (NCP), according to Education Minister Rana Tanveer Hussain. The word 'single' has been removed from the original name.

The Sindh Education Minister Sardar Ali Shah has stated that other provinces also have the right to teach literature and tradition in their provinces.

According to Maryam Chaghtai, the country's last education policy was issued in 2009. Private schools do not emphasize Islam and Urdu, government schools have outdated curriculums and untrained teachers. Madrasahs teach science up to eighth grade, but mathematics is not taught. Therefore, National Curriculum is being introduced.

Statistics show that 25 million children are out of school in Pakistan; the curriculum of mathematics, science, computer sciences and english is being adopted in Sindh, the equivalent of Islam for minorities is being introduced under the name of "Ethics" and Sindh is leading it first.

Dr Fauzia Khan, the Chief of Sindh Curriculum Wing, said more than 60,000 teachers have been trained in one year regarding the challenges of the 21st century. With the help of the federal government, teacher education is also being prioritized.