The ministry of education will organise the 3rd two-day National Education Conference from May 30 here to evaluate deficiencies in the current National Education Policy (1998-2010) with the aim to make it more responsive to the needs of the modern world.
This was decided in a high level meeting chaired by the Federal Minister for Education, Lieutenant-General Javed Ashraf (Retd), here on Tuesday. Sharing the issues of the conferences it was told that governance, management, curriculum, textbooks, teachers, education assessment, parallel system of education and the relevance of education would be the major themes of the conference and more than 150 concerned delegates would be attending the conference from all over the country.
The meeting was informed that the Inter-provincial Education Ministers' Conference in January 2005 approved the proposal that the existing education policy needs a serious review and assessment, as the policy was not in consonance with new developments.
The meeting was told new thoughts and concepts which had revolutionised the world during the past few years would be incorporated keeping in view the religious, social and economic considerations of the Pakistani society.
The meeting was further briefed that the review process would be completed in two years, as it was essential to cope with the developments as decentralisation of service delivery under the Devolution Plan of 2000, Pakistan's renewed commitments to the education for all under the Dakar Framework of Action of 2000, Millennium Development Goals of 2001, Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper of 2003 and the Medium Term Development Framework of 2005 and most importantly the government's resolve of ensuring equitable proliferation of quality education.
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