Education is the key to progress whether it is in an individual
case, community circle, regional boundaries, and nationwide. It must be a basic
right of every individual. Even education needs to be free from the age factor.
Because it provides the best steps for seeking knowledge. All the developed
nations have proved it to the world and are ruling over the world with their
curriculum. Curriculums like Cambridge and Oxford are vivid examples. Today many
nations are following these international curriculums with a certain variation.
Pakistan has been one of them and that has created major discrimination and
upheaval in class division. Though education should be far beyond the divisions.
The divisions can be broken down with a common national curriculum because the international
curriculum cannot work nationally.
However, Pakistan has taken an exemplary initiative to
design a Single National Curriculum (SNC) which has a well-formed format. This initiative
has been processed from the grass-root level and has considered all the
important aspects. It would be the ideal curriculum for the nation. The objectives
of this upgraded curriculum are to educate every child with fair and equal
opportunities, to upgrade Social Cohesion and National Integration, to
alleviate the disparities in education content, to enhance social mobility, and
more and more to work for the holistic development of children.
Moreover, the key considerations are also genuine
like the teaching of Quran and Sunnah to the Muslims, to inculcate the vision
of great leaders like Jinnah and Iqbal, to introduce a constitutional framework
with national policies, aspiration, and standards, alignment with the goals and
targets of Suitable Development Goals given by United Nation. It has
consideration of social, cultural, and religious values, up to date with the
international trends, Promotion of
intellectual, spiritual, aesthetic, emotional, social, and physical development
of learners, and shift of trend from rote-memorization to research-based
projects and inquires.
Further,
this discussion is in the table of all high profile stakeholders such as all federating
units, public sector, private sector, Federal Government Educational
Institutions (FGEIs) Cantts & Garrisons, Deeni Madaris, Cambridge
University UK for English, Math’s and Science, and LUMS and AKU-IED.
For
now, the main thing is the implementation of all these write-ups practically
throughout Pakistan. The ground practice of this Single National Curriculum (SNC)
can work to end all the disparities and divisions in the education sector. It needs
to ensure all the education departments implement this Single National Curriculum.
So that the differences of the elite education system, middle-class level, and
poor’s affiliation can be overcome. The poor in the Deeni Madaris has exactly
the same rights to get an education as the elite going to the top educational institutes.
The child starting from pre-class in the government primary school must have
the opportunity to get Early Child Development (ECD) course like the private
standard schools. The children of the middle class and lower class also need
holistic development and nourishment from well-trained teachers. The primary level
is the basis of education and if it would be of the mark then there would not
be any obstacle in getting the high and higher level of education.
SNC
with well-trained teachers can upgrade Pakistan to a top-level educated country
and it can gather the nation as one nation (AikQaum). So, it should be
implemented on a priority basis because we cannot effort to lose more time in
the progression of our country Pakistan. All the table participating
stakeholders can play their roles in the implementation. As a nation, we will
study the same so that we can stand at the level.