In 2018, on the suggestion of Federal Minister for Education and Professional Training Shafqat Mahmood, Prime Minister Imran Khan created a National Curriculum Council for the preparation of the single nation curriculum. “For the academic session of 2021-22, approximately 50 million SNC books for grade 1-5 have been acquired from PCTB,” the official informed. Private schools, those with sufficient budgets and resources to perhaps implement the SNC are currently the most reluctant to implement it. “Unfortunately, the government is treating private schools like ‘the enemy’ and English as a language of the non-believer. We (the politicians) will consider this agenda (SNC) as a national curriculum when the curriculum in the elite schools and in a government school of a backward area would be the same.

Source: Pakistan Today September 07, 2021 16:01 UTC