Education Ministry to ensure the implementation of single national curriculum

The Ministry of Education has established a committee to ensure the unified national curriculum's adoption. Guidelines will be issued to the authority concerned to review the new curriculum documents according to the required specifications. The committee would also recommend areas in the syllabus that, according to academic requirements, can be included or omitted.

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In the past month, as the province already had an advanced curriculum relative to the other provinces, the Sindh Minister of Education, Saeed Ghani, had stated that he would not follow the SNC. But Shafqat Mahmood, the federal education minister, ordered all the provinces to print one to five class textbooks according to the single national curriculum. The federal ministry has reported an ongoing debate with the Sindh governments and that the SNC will be implemented in both public and private schools and seminars. Since introducing the primary level curriculum, the government will launch the standardized curriculum from next year for classes 6 to 8 and from 2023 for nine to twelve classes.

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The committee members are affiliated with Pakistan's reputable institutes, including Quaid-i-Azam University, Lahore University of Engineering, FC College Lahore, NED University of Engineering and Technology, Jamshoro University, and many others. The committee will track the application of the program that has already been finalized. Members would have a supervisory role to enforce the program established by the national curriculum members.