ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Wednesday chaired a briefing on National Education Policy Framework (NEPF) here at Prime Minister’s Office, ARY News reported.
During the meeting, Minister for Federal Education and Professional Training Mr. Shafqat Mahmood gave a detailed presentation on the National Education Policy Framework identifying various challenges vis-a-vis out of school children, education apartheid, quality of education and skill development issues.
The PM appreciated the efforts being done at federal and provincial level and said that the aim of the National Education Policy Framework is to bring uniformity in existing fragmented apartheid system of education.
He said that NEPF is being formulated to with an objective to ensure that all children have a fair and equal opportunity to receive a high quality of education in order to achieve their full potential.
The prime minister emphasized that skill development of the youth should be especially focused upon so that the immense potential of the youth could be effectively utilized.
Highlighting the contours of the education policy, the minister said that optimum utilization of the existing infrastructure, employing technology solutions, improvement in non-formal education systems, attracting quality teachers and incentivizing the education were some of the measures in the proposed framework that would significantly help enhancing school enrolment and addressing the issues of out-of-school children
The minister also suggested establishment of a National Curriculum Council for the purpose of engaging and creating broad consensus among stakeholders for common standards of education across Pakistan.
The briefing was attended by Punjab Education Minister Murad Rass, Adviser Education Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Zia Ullah Bangash, federal and provincial secretaries for education and senior officers.
