KARACHI – Federal Minister for Education and Vocational Training Shafqat Mehmood on Thursday said that next year’s final exams will be held in May-June 2022 in accordance with syllabus which will be completed during the current academic year. The examinations will be held in May-June while A and O-Level examinations will also be held as per schedule, he said, adding, that coordination mechanism will also be set up at secretaries level to further enhance cooperation between federation and the provinces. He was talking to media after 33rd Inter-Provincial Education Ministers’ Conference hosted by Sindh at a local hotel in Karachi. The minister said it was decided that syllabus being taught this year would be completed and examinations would be held in accordance with complete syllabus. He said last year all the educational boards had decided to take the exam of only optional subjects because of COVID-19 pandemic. He said the inter-provincial conference of provincial education ministers, in which the chairman of the federal board and all the provincial education ministers were present, decided that examinations will be held in May-June and will be in accordance with complete syllabus. He said the Coronavirus pandemic is under control so the academic year would now return to normal.
Federal Minister said the federal government has started a program across the country especially for the education of girls to increase their presence in schools.
He said one of the weaknesses in the field of education was that there was no authentic data available, adding discussions were held to create an authoritative data organization.
He said, “There was also a discussion on how we can improve our authoritative data collection process.”
The minister said it was also decided to improve the federal and provincial coordination.
“Basically, my analysis has always been that education is above politics and education is important for a country, so we all have to work together for education”, the minister concluded.