October 21, 2003	Tuesday	Sha'aban 24, 1424

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ISLAMABAD, Oct 20: National Accountability Bureau (NAB) in collaboration with the ministry of education is developing new curriculum to create awareness about corruption among students at all levels, a source said.

The source said the anti-corruption themes would be included in the curriculum under National Anti-Corruption Strategy (NACS), devised by the NAB.

In this connection, the NAB and the ministry of education, he said, was organizing a workshop on October 21-22 here at the Academy of Education Planning and Development, G-8/2.

The federal education minister and the NAB chairman will speak on the occasion.

The workshop is likely to focus on the recommendations of the government’s Special Focal Groups, a detailed policy implementation plan on anti-corruption themes to be incorporated to various stages of curriculum, youth and students’ need for a transparent system of governance and services all over the country.

The workshop proceedings, the source said, would take into consideration modification of the curriculum in the short-term in order to embed relevant messages in the present curricular content related to ethics by adding paragraphs and lines.

Seminal changes in the curriculum of all grades through introduction of new chapters/articles/exercises will constitute proposed items of deliberations.

“These changes will be effected after due deliberations during normal curriculum review cycles,” he said.