LAHORE, March 5: The Tanzeem-i-Asatza Pakistan (TAP) has unveiled a set of recommendations to improve education system and take it to the right direction that may eliminate class system and strengthen country's ideological basis. Explaining the chalked-out recommendations at organisation's head office here on Saturday, TAP president Prof Mian Muhammad Akram demanded of the government form a National Education Commission consisting of committed and honest educationists who could work without succumbing to internal and external pressures at all levels. The commission be tasked with making all educational policies compatible with the national requirements.

He said the organisation had suggested to the government to ensure the implementation of a uniform education system and to provide free educational facilities to all. He said that children living in far flung areas and those belonging to poor segments of society be given special importance and illiteracy be eliminated in shortest possible time.

He said the government must stop privatising and commercialising education and strengthen public sector education instead. The government must allocate at least seven per cent of the gross domestic product to the education sector.

Prof Akram said the TAP had demanded that the federal government must keep the curriculum wing at federal level while devolving the education sector under the 18th Constitutional Amendment to the provinces. Otherwise, he said, provincialism would be promoted and that would damage the national identity. He said the government-approved curricula be implemented in all public and private sector educational institutions.

He said the organisation had recommended that Urdu be used as a medium of instruction and also be used in all competitive examinations. It also demanded that the government must withdraw its decision of implementing English as a medium of instruction from primary classes.

Prof Akram said that they had recommended that academies be set up in all provinces, where teachers be imparted training on modern lines besides offering them refresher courses and training sessions at district and tehsil levels.

The government should also set up Teachers Recruitment Commissions at provincial level that could make recruitments on merit without succumbing to any administrative or political pressure. He stressed that the government should ensure merit in admissions to classes at all levels.

The TAP also demanded a transparent examination system to assess students' learning outcomes and to promote education for women besides ensuring provision of educational facilities to students across the province without any discrimination.

Prof Akram also demanded that the government must withdraw its decision of privatising educational institutions and College Councils be set up to ensure improved performance of the college administrations. The vacant posts in colleges be filled at the earliest, he added.

The TAP also demanded that the higher education be given special emphasis and all latest facilities be made available in libraries and laboratories, he added.