Uniform curriculum for primary schools to be ready by March, says education minister.

KARACHI -- Despite the fact that education has become a provincial subject after the passage of the 18th Amendment, Federal Education Minister Shafqat Mehmood on Wednesday declared that his ministry was busy in devising uniform curricula for the whole country as the curriculum for primary schools would be ready by March next year.

'We are in the process of making curriculum for the children of entire country, which will encompass everyone as children irrespective of being enrolled with government-run or privately-run schools even in madressahs will be taught one curriculum,' said the federal minister while speaking at the concluding session of a three-day event to celebrate the 143rd birth anniversary of Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah at...