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"Uniform Curriculum and Our Education System

The document discusses the importance of implementing a uniform curriculum across Pakistan's education system. It notes that Pakistan currently has four distinct education systems that use different curricula, resulting in inequalities. A uniform curriculum could help foster national unity by ensuring all students learn the same content. The conference addressed how a uniform curriculum has been implemented in many other countries and could help divert Pakistani youth away from extremism and toward building a tolerant society.

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"Uniform Curriculum and Our Education System

The document discusses the importance of implementing a uniform curriculum across Pakistan's education system. It notes that Pakistan currently has four distinct education systems that use different curricula, resulting in inequalities. A uniform curriculum could help foster national unity by ensuring all students learn the same content. The conference addressed how a uniform curriculum has been implemented in many other countries and could help divert Pakistani youth away from extremism and toward building a tolerant society.

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  • Uniform Curriculum and Our Education System: Discusses the impact of a uniform curriculum on education systems, emphasizing the role in promoting national cohesion and addressing cultural integration challenges.

“Uniform Curriculum and Our Education System

 This conference “Uniform Curriculum and Our Education System” organized jointly by
IRD and the Department of Education, IIUI addresses a very important subject.
 The key value of a curriculum is to ensure cohesion and uniformity in the education
system of diverse cultures and societies to achieve the cherished goal of national unity.
Curriculum is simply a vehicle to interpret and transmit the national goals and societal
aspirations to the younger generations.
 Majority of the Muslim countries have uniform curriculum for all the schools. These
include Turkey, Egypt, Jordan, Indonesia, UAE and Saudi Arabia, etc. Uniform core
curriculum is implemented in over 95 countries of the world.
 In Pakistan four distinct systems of education and examinations are being followed i.e.
public school system, private school system, Deeni Madaris system and non-formal
education system. These schools impart knowledge, mainly in two languages - Urdu and
English. Each one follows different curricula and assessment systems resulting in wide
range of inequalities and disparities. All these schools promote distinct cultures and
inculcate different habits and manners in their students. Students entering into society
with their divergent outlooks are sources of disunity in the country and Pakistan is
increasingly becoming a split-society with each passing day.
 However, in the recent past, various voices have been raised for major changes in
syllabus and a uniformity to divert the youth’s minds from extremism and help them
focus on building a tolerant society.
 In fact, role of education is cardinal in fostering a national ideological consensus.
Education has mostly remained neglected in Pakistan. However, the present government
has taken a step in this direction by announcing that it was thinking of a uniform
curriculum throughout the country.
 From today’s conference I have perceived that the planned uniform education/
curriculum/ books/ examination will allow us to reduce or eliminate disparities among
children across the country. Children from across provinces, cities as well as the rural
areas, across gender, and across socioeconomic status will read the same contents.
 Uniform ideological development should start in the early years of schooling so as to ensure
greater levels of tolerance and patience in our youth. This will foster a same set of beliefs to get
the people into a single entity.

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