All hail the SNC
I was on a road trip to the northern areas with friends. We were at a rest stop, our black off-road utility vehicle parked on the side of the road,…
Wiping the SNC slate
This op-ed is not another technical analysis of the Single National Curriculum (SNC). Over the last two years, several people (including me) have collectively contributed an archive of at least…
SNC at Ayaz Melo
Ayaz Melo (the festival named after Sindhi national poet Shaikh Ayaz) is an annual event that takes place in Hyderabad every year in December. This year, the seventh iteration of…
SNC: curiouser and curiouser
I completed a page-by-page review of three model textbooks prepared for the Pre-1 Grade under the Single National Curriculum. I had intended to review all textbooks up to Grade 5…
SNC: time for solutions
If nothing else the debate over the Single National Curriculum (SNC) has forced many to talk, engage and research about education. It has compelled everyone to become a self-proclaimed educationist…
SNC: a teacher’s perspective
Anyone venturing towards the daunting and a much-needed task of creating a single and national curriculum for schools in Pakistan will surely face unprecedented obstacles, varied criticism from several quarters…
A scorecard of the SNC debate
As the primary school Single National Curriculum (SNC) is being rolled out, I often find myself looking back at the debate over the last three years. The SNC is the…
Reservations about SNC
I have looked into the Single National Curriculum and the relevant Punjab Curriculum and Textbook Board’s (PCTB) books in considerable detail. It makes me sad to think of the future…
SNC and shrinking provincial policy space
While the PTI’s education policy boasted of a six-point ‘Education Emergency Plan’ which included an increase in education funding from 2.1 percent of GDP to 5 percent, investment in teacher…
Constitution and the SNC
A lot has been written about the proposed Single National Curriculum (SNC) and how it is detrimental to the 18th Constitutional Amendment which has devolved education at all levels to…
