Education ministry sets up committee to oversee curriculum standards.

ISLAMABAD -- The education ministry on Friday notified a 10-member supervisory committee of experts to provide guidance to ensure that the ongoing curriculum renewal process meets necessary requirements.

'The committee will provide overall guidance to ensure that curriculum renewal process adheres to the necessary requirements i.e academic standards, student needs according to age and grade level and international trends,' read a notification issued on Friday.

The committee is tasked to review curriculum documents and advise about their accuracy, consistency and relevance. It will also advise about the continuity of knowledge and skills across grades K-12 in the curriculum documents.

Experts to ensure curriculum renewal process adheres to international trends, says notification

The experts will also suggest programme areas that should be included or excluded from the curriculum.

The federal government in collaboration with provinces has already developed a single National Curriculum (SNC) for class one to five, which will be implemented in the upcoming academic session to start in August. However, sources in the education ministry said Sindh was not fully convinced and might refuse to adopt the SNC.

Last month, Sindh Education Minister Saeed Ghani had told Dawn that his province already had an advanced curriculum compared to other provinces so it was not going to adopt the SNC, hinting that if need arises the provincial government will get an input from SNC.

The sources said all provinces had been requested to get the textbooks of 1 to V classes published in accordance with the SNC.

'We have requested all provinces, so now it is up to them to get the books published. The PTI and its allies are in government at the centre, in Punjab, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan so...