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.
