educational policy 1970 all details about this policy ppt

1. “National education policy
1970”

2. Content
• Policy
• Educational policy
• Goals of educational policy
• National education policy
1970
• Salient features
• Primary and secondary
education
• Higher education
• Adult education
• Re-organization of curriculum
• Examination system
• Teacher training
• National language as medium
instruction
• Implementation

3. Policy
• Policy is a future and presents way of action to follow.
Educational policy
• Educational policy refers to the collection of laws and rules that
govern the operation education system.
• An education policy is a past or up to date statement or series of
statements which explain, recommend or exclude a course of actions to
be taken to be run the system of education.

4. Cont’d
• Education policy is the principles and government policy-making in
educational sphere, as well as the collection of laws and rules that
govern the operation of education systems.
• Education occurs in many forms for many purposes through many
institutions.
• Examples include early childhood education, kindergarten through to
12th grade, two and four year colleges or universities, graduate and
professional education, adult education and job training.
• Therefore, education policy can directly affect the education people
engage in at all ages.

5. Goals of educational policy
1.Improve the academic success of all students by strengthening standards-based reforms,
including assessments and accountability measures.
2. Establish and maintain a statewide education finance system based upon principles of
adequacy, equity, accountability and predictability.
3. Build effective educational capacity to support learning by all students, with special
emphasis on the need to ensure a qualified teacher in every classroom at all times .
4.Ensure that all every school shall have school leaders who will promote and support high
achievement for all students through effective instructional leadership, school
management and governance.
5. Enact state policies that shall ensure that every young child in the state shall have access
to high-quality early education programs including pre-school and full-day kindergarten.
6. Ensure that all citizens of all ages shall have practical financial and physical access to a
rich range of post- secondary educational opportunities.

6. National education policy 1970
• The President (Agha Muhammad Yahya Khan) announced that
Government would lay greater emphasis on the social sectors and
would attach high priority to the educational problem.
• A set of proposals of a new education policy were formulated.
• In the light of public comments, the original proposals were
reviewed.
• The Cabinet considered the revised proposals and appointed a
committee to examine them in detail.

7. Cont’d
• The revised proposals were reviewed by the committee of the
Cabinet in the light of implications of the announcement by the
President in his address to the nation on November 28, 1969.
• • The new Education Policy was finally adopted by the Cabinet on
March 26, 1970.
• • This is also called “ Noor Khan Report” (Air Marshal Malik Nur
Khan).

8. Salient features
• Emphasis on ideological orientation.
• Islamiat should be taken compulsory upto secondary level ( in 1959 it was proposed to be
compulsory upto class 8) .
• Emphasis on science and technology education.
• Decentralization of educational administration.
• The Policy aimed at free and universal enrolment up to Class V by 1980, with particular stress on
girl’s education.
• Policy also identified that there were about 100 million illiterates in Pakistan of whom 90 percent
are concentrated in the rural areas.
• Policy innovated further to aim at covering 5 million adults and school leavers by 1975 through
requiring all employers, including government, to provide work-oriented basic education to all of
their employees.
• Establishment of a National Education Corps.(Kaiser Bengali 1999) .
• Eradication of illiteracy.

9. Primary education
• This has been thought as the basic
principle in the government policy.
• It was recommended to make
common the primary education upto
fifth class by 1980 and then raised to
the level of class eight.
• Girls education was encouraged .
• By the end of 1970 about 10.5
million children will be enrolled in
primary (6.3 million in East Pakistan
and 4.2 in West Pakistan).
• 22400 primary schools will be
opened in East Pakistan and
5000 in West Pakistan .
• 2.8 million new places will be
created in East Pakistan and 2.3
million in West Pakistan.
• Raising percentage of primary
age group enrolment from 55% to
67% in East Pakistan and from
46% to 65% in West Pakistan.
• In west Pakistan 15000 primary
schools will be improved under
the development program by
providing equipment and teaching
aids.

10. Secondary education
• Scientific, technical and professional education has been stressed.
• A target of education of four hundred and thirty thousand (430,000)
students has been fixed in the plan of 1970 .
• Achieving an enrolment ratio of 40:60 between arts and the scientific,
technical and vocational program.
• 71000 trained teachers will be produced.

11. Higher education
• Curriculum has been stressed to be
reorganized to improve higher
education.
• New colleges be opened for
science education.
• Centers for excellence be opened
in the universities where research
work be done.
• University Grant Commission was
stressed to be effective and
efficient to coordinate the work
and standard of universities.
• New university will be established
in Balochistan (upgrading
Government Degree College,
Quetta or taking the building of
Institute of Mineral Technology,
Quetta).
• A small university will be
developed in one of Government
college of Multan or Sargodha .

12. Adult education
• In the education policy of 1970, adult education has been stressed
much and the setting of Education Corps has been recommended.
• About 5 million adults will be provided education by the end of 1975.
• Armed Forces of Pakistan will be play an essential role in adult
education.

13. Re-organization of curriculum
• Curriculum Research Committee Centers at provincial level be set up.
• Each province should have a permanent Curriculum Bureau.
• Devising curriculum &coordinating with provincial textbook boards &
teachers training institutions.
• Scientific and technical education be included at every stage.
• In addition, education as a subject be included in the curriculum as
an optional subject.

14. Examination system
• The existing system of examination has been thought in the report as
unsatisfactory because it does not measure the ability of the student.
• It therefore needs to be reformed and restructured.

15. Teacher training
• • It has been recommended in
the report that 138,000 teachers
be provided training.
• 150,000 be trained during
services.
• Emergency training program of
the duration of 2 to 6 months in
teachers training colleges,
general colleges and technical
institutions will be launched.
• Introduction of pedagogy as a
subject at the Intermediate and
Degree levels and Technical
institutions were considered as a
means of meeting the demand
for additional teachers.
• • These training programs are
intended to supplement the
facilities of training under the
normal programs of teacher
education.

16. National language as medium instruction
• It has been recommended in the
report that a commission is to be
set up to make the national
language as medium of instruction.
• Textbooks be published in Urdu
language.
Implementation

17. Implementation
• The policy was never implemented on account of the war with India,
secession of East Pakistan, and the collapse of the military government.
• Less resources.
• Economically weak condition of the country.
• The circumstances in that period were not peaceful. In 1971, the country
was divided into two, Pakistan and Bangladesh. During this, Government
of Yahua Khan was dissolved. Ike all the previous policies, financial crisis
created serious obstacles in the implementation of this policy. In 1972,
Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto came to rule. He rejected this policy and issued a new
one so in this way this policy was not implemented.