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Thursday, August 25, 2022

National Education Policy 2009.| Higher Education

 QUESTION:

Describe the provision of higher education in National Policy 2009.

Course: Higher Education
Course code 8625
Level: B.Ed Solved Assignment

ANSWER:

National Education Policy 2009


Islamabad, Aug 20: The National Education Policy (NEP) 2009 prepared by the federal government seeks the transformation of society along the lines of Islamic teachings and to revitalize the existing education system to cater to the social, political, and spiritual needs of individuals and
society.


The NEP has nine chapters and describes overarching challenges, articulates the ways of filling the commitment-implementation gap, puts forward the provisions of Islamic education and transformation of the society on Islamic and human values, outlines reforms and policy actions to be taken at the sub-sector level, and broadly suggests a framework for implementation of the policy.

 

According to the policy's draft, teaching Islamiyat to Muslim students is meant to provide them with opportunities to learn understand, and apply the fundamental principles of Islam in their lives. This, it says, will reform and develop society on the principles of the Holy Quran and Sunnah. The policy declares Islamic education as the duty of society and the state. It says the ideology of Islam forms the genesis of the State of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan and its fundamental principles were defined in the Objectives Resolution, 1949, which is part of the Constitution.


Titled Islamic Education, the NEP's Chapter Four gives out the vision for teaching Islamic Studies. It says as provided in the Constitution, that all steps will be taken to enable Muslims of Pakistan, individually and collectively, to order their lives according to the fundamental principles and basic concepts of Islam, and to provide facilities whereby they may be enabled to understand the meaning of life according to the Holy Quran and Sunnah.


According to the NEP, Islamiyat will be taught as a compulsory subject from Grade I to Grade XII, extending up to graduation level in all general and professional institutions, and advanced Islamic Studies will be offered as an elective subject in grades IX-X and XI-XII.


The policy divides the Islamiyat curriculum into five main parts – Al-Quran Al Kareem; Imaniyaat and Ibaadat; Seerat-e-Tayyiba; Ethics and Good Behaviour, and Prominent Personalities of Islam. The first part includes the reading of the Holy Quran (Nazira), the memorizing of selected small Suras of the Holy Quran (Hifz), the memorization and translation of selected small Suras, and the Quranic supplications, and selected Hadith.


According to it, the Islamic teachings will be made part of teacher training curricula and the curricula of other training institutions. It says Arabic teachers, preferably having the qualification of Qaris, will be appointed to such institutions. The policy promises to ensure that textual and other learning materials don't contain anything repugnant to Islamic injunctions and controversial material against any sect or religious or ethnic minorities.


The policy recommends teaching Ethics and Moral Education instead of Islamiyat to non-Muslim children and the appointment of subject-specific teachers for the purpose.

 


DOVETAILING GOVERNMENT INITIATIVES


Recently many new initiatives have been taken by the government aiming at providing missing facilities. The traditional approach of improving infrastructure and providing brick-and-mortar is no doubt necessary, but not sufficient for quality education delivery and sustainable economic development in the existing burgeoning global competitive milieu. Some initiatives also focus/target on improving teaching quality and learning environment, building the capacity of education managers and administrators, etc. Apart from the Ministry of Education, many other initiatives have been launched in the recent past by different Ministries, organizations, and departments like the National Commission for Humans.


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