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Education in Pakistan – Last Part – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #684 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #684 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans welcome sharing of knowledge and wisdom by Veterans for the benefit of Community at large. Pharma Veterans Blog is published by Asrar Qureshi on  WordPress, the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here. Single National Curriculum - SNC The curriculum refers to what is taught in a particular grade, course, and subject. It is an interactive, system of instruction and learning with specific goals, topics, strategies, measurement, and resources. Single National Curriculum – SNC has been designed as a single vision. It is based on the concept of universal education for all. It has a single curricular structure that applies to all classes, and the medium of instruction remains the same from grade 1 to 12.  Single National Curriculum became talk of the town when it was ...

Education in Pakistan – Part 3 – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #682 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #682 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans welcome sharing of knowledge and wisdom by Veterans for the benefit of Community at large. Pharma Veterans Blog is published by Asrar Qureshi on  WordPress, the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here. Education Structure and System in Pakistan As mentioned earlier, Education is now a provincial subject. The Ministry of Education at the federal level only coordinates with the international development partners and provides a platform to the provincial departments for exchange of information, leading to synergy and synchronization.  Public school system is still the largest provider – 62% of formal education for 12 years; grade 1 to 12. Preliminary classes like kindergarten, prep, nursery, are neither recognized for budgetary provision nor for examination. Public se...

Education in Pakistan – Part 1 – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #680 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #680 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans welcome sharing of knowledge and wisdom by Veterans for the benefit of Community at large. Pharma Veterans Blog is published by Asrar Qureshi on  WordPress, the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here. Writing about education in Pakistan is a complex task. Too many factors, too many voices, too many analyses, too many reports, make it an uphill task to sift the facts from junk. It is also open to conjecture because any number of ideas may be floated and are flying around.  I shall try to walk on a thin line and rely on several sources and hard data to make this discussion worthwhile. I shall give references at the bottom which may not necessarily be in the same order, but some parts of these would have been used as source in this discussion. Yesterday, chief minist...