The Higher Education Commission (HEC) as a result of consultative meetings has developed for the first time a curriculum for Associate Degree in Education (Intermediate + 2 year Associate degree). The new Degree will phase out existing Primary Teaching Certificate (PTC) and Certificate in Teaching (CT) to help enhance standard of teaching in schools.
It has been designed to respond to the requirement of the National Education Policy 2009, which states that by 2018 all teachers in Pakistan's classrooms will require a Bachelors degree to teach. The Committee also revised curriculum for BEd (Hons) for Elementary and Secondary Education. This BEd (Hons) degree corresponds to international standards in teacher education.
On the basis of BEd (Hons) and ADE draft curriculum developed by National Curriculum Revision Committee (NCRC) HEC, Pre-Service Teacher Education Programme (Pre-STEP) organised workshops for developing the detail course outlines, time allocated for each topic, instructional strategies deployed for different topics, assessment methods; for Associate Degree programme to be launched in Government Colleges of Education affiliated with 15 universities in first phase. The HEC initiated this exercise to revise the curriculum of Education. In this regard National Curriculum Revision Committee was constituted comprising 38 experts from different universities across the country. -PR