The education ministry has designed a new set of question papers in which 20 percent of the paper would call for objective answers and only 30 percent would be provided for descriptive answers. The new plan for examination was made public at the Senate Standing Committee on Education meeting held here on Thursday.
The committee called for revamping the structure of entire public education system of the country. The public education system of the country should equip students with courage to grapple with contemporary challenges in national life as well as to comprehend global world-view.
The standing committee desired that in this overwhelming task, the education ministry must concentrate on teachers' training projects as well as shape the examination system, which should conform to the international standards.
However, the immediate task facing the federal and provincial education departments are to make textbooks available to students in time. The committee also asked education departments to introduce a scheme on National Scholarship System, on the pattern of Great Britain.
Chairperson Razina Alam Khan expressed her concern over the deteriorating standards of education in public schools and lacklustre performance of students, especially of the F.Sc. students in the new system of examination, and also asked the government's to honour its commitment to the Universal Primary Education by 2015, which was a target of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Earlier, a presentation was made on the National Education Assessment System (NEAS), a centralised examination system introduced across the country.