Prime Minister Imran Khan launched the Single National Curriculum (SNC) on Monday.
“This was my vision for last 25 years that one day in Pakistan we will have a single core curriculum for the whole country,” said PM Khan while addressing the SNC launch ceremony in Islamabad.
People used to tell me that it is not possible since there was no incentive to do this, the prime minister said. “[This was] because those who were in power, who had to make decisions, their children were studying in institutions where there was English medium education,” he said.
“All the jobs were for the English medium education, all the privileges are for them in the society,” PM Khan said. It had become a status symbol, he added.
Punjab will begin implementing the Single National Curriculum from the educational year 2021-2022.
A notification by the Punjab Curriculum and Textbook Board, issued on Monday, read that the new curriculum will be taught to classes I to V.
Prime Minister Imran Khan had said on June 25 that his government is going to implement a uniform education system from March 2022.
At the time, he was addressing the National Assembly session and said that 2.5 million students at religious seminaries would be brought into the mainstream and would be given world education as well.
