WE are still following the 1970 educational policy. Three different textbooks are taught in Sindh to students from KG to Class XII. These are published by the Sindh Textbook Board and the Oxford University Press.

STB books are taught in the Sindhi medium government schools while private non-elite English-medium schools and colleges use books printed by foreign publishers.

In the absence of equality in education, regional disparities get encouraged. These problems are of utmost concern in Sindh textbooks. These are mentioned as outdated editions, less knowledge-oriented, repetition of same events in different textbooks, narrow teaching approaches and material used is full of dogmas, bias and demarcation against fellow citizens.

It is time the education policy was changed and replaced by the latest academic curriculum.

Ghulam Qadir Sario

Larkana

Published in Dawn, October 18th, 2015

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