After months of foot-dragging, the federal cabinet approved on Wednesday the national education policy which sets ambitious goals of raising the annual budgetary allocations for the sector to seven per cent of the GDP and increasing literacy to 85 per cent by 2015.
Grades 11 and 12 (intermediate education) will no more be part of college education but will be merged into the school system. All primary schools will be upgraded to the middle level.
The government also plans to increase enrolment in higher education from the present 4.7 per cent to 10 per cent by 2015 and to 15 per cent by 2020.
At present the allocation for the education sector is about two per cent of the GDP.
In the first week of April, a draft of the national education policy was submitted to the cabinet, but its approval was deferred for want of inputs from relevant quarters.
Inter-provincial forum of education ministers had been given a supervisory role in the new policy. It will meet on a regular basis to address provinces’ concern. Education is a provincial subject and the federal government only takes policy decisions.
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