Prime Minister Imran Khan has said that the National Education Policy Framework (NEPF) was being devised to bring uniformity in the existing fragmented apartheid system of education.
He was chairing a briefing on NEPF at PM’s Secretariat on Wednesday.
The prime minister said that the objective of bringing new education policy is to create a nation and ‘produce true Pakistanis’. He emphasized that skill development of the youth should be, especially focused on so their immense potential could be effectively utilized.
Federal Education and Professional Training Minister Shafqat Mahmood gave a detailed presentation on the NEPF identifying various challenges vis-a-vis out of school children, education apartheid, quality of education and skill development issues. He said that the framework is being formulated 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.
Highlighting the contours of the NEPF, 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.