ISLAMABAD, March 1: The Higher Education Commission (HEC) has finalized the curriculum for the discipline of fine arts for graduate and postgraduate levels.

The meeting of the National Curriculum Revision Committee (NCRC) of the HEC concluded at the HEC Regional Centre, Lahore, after preparing the final draft of the curriculum. The final draft of the curriculum prepared by the committee will be sent to all universities for implementation.

The committee recommended that art education should be improved at secondary and higher secondary level to improve standard.

The HEC director regional centre, who conducted the meeting, told the participants that a workshop for re-orientation of teaching methodology according to the revised curriculum was being organized.

The experts, who attended the meeting, were Prof Dr Mohammad Ali, University of Sindh, Jamshoro; Dr Ms Akhtar Saeed, Lahore College University for Women; Kaleem Khan, University of Balochistan, Quetta; Durriya Qazi, University of Karachi; Younis Masood, University of Peshawar and Irfanullah Babar, Government College University, Lahore.

Meanwhile, the Higher Education Commission has approved a research project entitled “Characterization and Applications of Bioregulators of Economic Importance; at the institute of biochemistry and biotechnology, University of the Punjab, Lahore.

The project amounting to about Rs30 million has been approved in a Departmental Development Working Party (DDWP) meeting held recently at the Higher Education Commission campus, Islamabad.

The project which will be completed in a period of three years has two main objectives.