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LAHORE: In a outstanding improvement, the Punjab College Schooling Division has added new topic teams to the matriculation, giving college students extra choices exterior of the standard science and humanities teams.
Punjab Secretary of College Schooling Khalid Naeem Wattoo said that pupils might now select from programs of entrepreneurship, info know-how (IT), agriculture and well being sciences.
This initiative marks the primary time in 70 years that the schooling system in Pakistan has seen such a major overhaul. The brand new teams purpose to align the curriculum with worldwide requirements and supply college students extra sensible and career-oriented choices.
“We’ve got launched 4 new teams: agriculture, IT, trend designing, and well being sciences. College students shall be taught virtually, with 30 marks allotted for principle and 40 marks for practicals,” Wattoo instructed Geo Information on Tuesday.
The introduction of those new teams won’t require the hiring of extra lecturers, he mentioned. As an alternative, current lecturers will obtain coaching to adapt to the trendy curriculum.
“We’ve got lecturers who’re engineers, and laptop lecturers are already in place. We’ll prepare our present employees to satisfy the calls for of those new topics,” Wattoo defined.
The entire marks for matriculation exams will stay at 1,100, with the brand new topics being built-in inside the current framework.
College students will choose their topic teams initially of the ninth grade, permitting them to give attention to their chosen fields all through their secondary schooling.