Staff Reporter
Minister for Federal Education and Professional Training Shafqat Mahmood Wednesday said religious seminaries have affirmed that their students would appear in middle, matric and intermediate level examination of Federal Board like other public, private schools.
He said the seminaries had, in principle, agreed with the federal government initiative for bringing their students in the mainstream in order to ensure a uniform education system in the country.
Addressing a press conference, he said the government had established National Curriculum Council (NCC) under which the new curriculum from class one to five was being prepared which would be introduced by March 2020.
In this regard, he said, all stakeholders including public and private sector schools, Madrassas, concerned departments had been taken on board on the issue.
He said that after holding several meetings regarding religious seminaries with Wafaq-Ul-Madaris, it had been decided that the Madrissa students would appear in the middle, matric and intermediate examinations like the students of other schools.
The passed students of Madrissa would be awarded the degrees of matric and intermediate, he added.
Shafqat said the public, private schools and religious seminaries would be bound to adopt One National Curriculum.
After intermediate, the Madrassa students would be eligible to join civil, security and other services, he said.
This was the major achievement of the present government regarding implementation of the uniform education system, he remarked.
The federal cabinet in its last meeting had approved to open twelve country-wide offices of the education ministry for the registration of the religious seminaries.
For the purpose, the cabinet had also approved the budget of Rs two billion for the next three years.
He said PC-I of the project was being prepared, adding that the government would make efforts to enure proper use of funds.
On the demand of Madrassas, the government had provided them the period of four to five years for completely implementing new educational policy, he said.
He added the government would provide all out support including financial and teaching to Madrassa’s after registration.
