Symposium on ‘Curriculum Development’

Islamabad
A two-day symposium on ‘Curriculum Development in Higher Education’ will begin at Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU), Islamabad, tomorrow (Tuesday).
The symposium, which is being organised by the Academics Division of Higher Education Commission (HEC), is aimed at brainstorming the most suitable procedure to be adopted as a guideline for undertaking curriculum revision and development at undergraduate and graduate levels.
The experts, invited from relevant fields in academia
as well as industry, will rev-
iew the current practices
of curriculum development
in higher education and will have focus group discussions to recommend strategies for improving the current practices.
The symposium is aimed at placing higher education in its local milieu from the international context that is kept in view when transplanting educational practices, identifying and filling the gaps that currently exist in higher education curriculum planning.