Summary The schools not teaching Sindhi will have to face penalty and cancellation of registration.
KARACHI (Online) - The Sindh education department will start a drive against private schools – both primary and secondary – that are not teaching Sindhi language as a subject, Sindh Education Minister Nisar Ahmed Khuhro told a daily on Monday.
Khuhro said that the drive will begin after Eidul Azha.
“We will cancel the registration of all such schools and impose penalty on them,” he said.
The Sindh education department has decided to reform the primary school syllabus in the province for the new academic year starting from March 2014.
According to a notification issued by the department, a 12-member committee under the supervision of Director Institute of Educational Development Aga Khan University Professor Muhammad Memon has been formed for this purpose.
Other members of the committee include Director Bureau of Curriculum Abdul Majeed Bhurt, former vice-chancellor of Shah Abdul latif University Khairpur Dr Nilofer Shaikh, University of Karachi’s sociology department teacher Dr Fateh Muhammad Burfat and University of Sindh’s Professor Parveen Muhshi.
Meanwhile, Senior Minister Sindh for Education and Literacy Nisar Ahmed Khuhro has been constituted the 12 members Advisory Committee on Textbooks Reforms in Sindh Province.
According to statement issued here on Monday Senior Minister Nisar Ahmed Khuhro has said that the Advisory Committee will review the Curriculum from class I to V and identify missing links, gaps and concepts for inclusion, the committee will also oversee the preparation of Textbooks as per reviewed and reformed curriculum.
He also said the committee will promote the fundamental human rights and democracy in curriculum and eliminate the discrimination on the basis of gender, ethnicity and religion that breeds intolerance, extremism and violence.
He said Committee will propose changes in curriculum and also stipulate duplication, overlapping, repetition, bias and other negative value that negatively affecting the learning, growth and world view of the students.
Nisar Ahmed Khuhro has said that advisory committee will file recommendations regarding Textbooks reforms after that new curriculum from class I to class V will be compiled and will provided in the March Month of next academic Year 2014-2015.
Khuhro said the advisory committee will determine how to reform the existing syllabus.
“An outdated syllabus is being taught to our students and over the years, no one has changed it. On the committee’s recommendation, we will introduce a new syllabus by the next academic year,” he said adding that they would also introduce a Montessori school system in the province at par with private schools, enrolling three-year olds.
