Needless to say, children from financially sound backgrounds mostly make it to schools offering qualification under Cambridge or International Baccalaureates, whereas the less privileged ones are bound to opt for the local elementary education system. The PM recently ordered setting up a National Curriculum Council to have one education system across the country. With the success in achieving the needed, the results will have a domino effect in multiple realms. Not only will it improve the country’s current literacy rate marred by the inability of government school students to read and write basic words and by extension of it the graph of development and progression of the country. Further, this will be a leap forward in eroding the widening class difference that continues to shadow one’s chances of landing up at equal opportunities as those from renowned educational institutions.
Yet the implementation of a standard education system across the country lingers between the stakeholders of the two systems, primarily involving the schools managed by members of the political fraternity or the bureaucracy who make moolah in terms of tuition fees and other miscellaneous charges for every student.
The National Education Policy Framework needs to be implemented in letter and in spirit. The government would need some consolidated and persistent effort to develop a quality curriculum that is taught across all provinces, while also devising a framework to control the mushroom growth of private schools often being managed without registration and license from the government.
Published in The Express Tribune, November 16th, 2018.
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