Prompt action: Govt says curriculum change notification is false
Orders education dept to conduct high-level inquiry to probe the issue.
Govt says curriculum change notification is false. PHOTO: FILE
PESHAWAR:
The notification to remove three essays from the curriculum is false, the government said on Sunday.
The government ordered the education department to conduct a high-level inquiry to probe the issue. Chairman Textbook Board Dr Himayatullah and Curriculum Director Shabir Hussain said no notification had been issued in this regard.
Himayatullah said they met Minister Muhammad Atif Khan before the Eid break, but they did not discuss anything regarding making changes to the curriculum. He said the minster expressed his intention to keep the curriculum unchanged.
The allegedly false notification was issued two days ago to the curriculum director of the textbook board by a section officer of the education department’s provincial secretariat. The notification said the three essays in the Pashto syllabus ‘da mojoda dor masayel’ (problem of the current era), Bacha Khan and Ghani Khan are controversial and were approved by the former government. It further said all these essays would be removed from the curriculum in the next academic year (2014).
The notification was published in local newspapers after which the provincial government took notice of the issue.
The additional secretary for education, Qaisar Alam, said the name used to issue the notification to the textbook board did not belong to any official in the education department. Alam said they would conduct an inquiry as per the government’s instructions.
Published in The Express Tribune, October 22nd, 2013.
The notification to remove three essays from the curriculum is false, the government said on Sunday.
The government ordered the education department to conduct a high-level inquiry to probe the issue. Chairman Textbook Board Dr Himayatullah and Curriculum Director Shabir Hussain said no notification had been issued in this regard.
Himayatullah said they met Minister Muhammad Atif Khan before the Eid break, but they did not discuss anything regarding making changes to the curriculum. He said the minster expressed his intention to keep the curriculum unchanged.
The allegedly false notification was issued two days ago to the curriculum director of the textbook board by a section officer of the education department’s provincial secretariat. The notification said the three essays in the Pashto syllabus ‘da mojoda dor masayel’ (problem of the current era), Bacha Khan and Ghani Khan are controversial and were approved by the former government. It further said all these essays would be removed from the curriculum in the next academic year (2014).
The notification was published in local newspapers after which the provincial government took notice of the issue.
The additional secretary for education, Qaisar Alam, said the name used to issue the notification to the textbook board did not belong to any official in the education department. Alam said they would conduct an inquiry as per the government’s instructions.
Published in The Express Tribune, October 22nd, 2013.