KARACHI, April 21: Pakistan needs a policy that ensures quality education for all, based on participation and control of academics working in all spheres of the education. This was stated in one of the recommendations adopted at the concluding session of a symposium on education held under the auspices of the United Teachers Forum (UTF), says a communication on Wednesday.

It was also recommended that education being a provincial subject should be returned to the provinces. Yet another resolution was critical of what was termed as interference in the affairs of the public sector universities by a federal body- the Higher education Commission (HEC).

It was also recommended that the HEC which was formed through Presidential Order 2002, should be placed before the parliament for debate and ratification. According to the communication, the recommendations committee was preparing a new 'teachers' education policy'. It will be announced soon after consultations with the academics throughout the country. -APP