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Outdated curriculumFROM THE NEWSPAPER — PUBLISHED ABOUT 13 HOURS AGO

WE are still following the 1970 educational policy. Three

different textbooks are taught in Sindh to students from

KG to Class XII. These are published by the Sindh Textbook

Board and the Oxford University Press.

STB books are taught in the Sindhi medium government

schools while private non-elite English-medium schools

and colleges use books printed by foreign publishers.

In the absence of equality in education, regional disparities

get encouraged. These problems are of utmost concern in

Sindh textbooks. These are mentioned as outdated

editions, less knowledge-oriented, repetition of same

events in different textbooks, narrow teaching approaches

and material used is full of dogmas, bias and demarcation

against fellow citizens.

It is time the education policy was changed and replaced by

the latest academic curriculum.

Ghulam Qadir Sario

Larkana

Published in Dawn, October 18th, 2015

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