Education Dept directed to include topics on ethics in curriculum

PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Secretary Muhammad Azam Khan has directed the authorities of Education Department to include different topics on ethics in the curriculum before the commencement of next academic year.
He also instructed the authorities that such lessons should be prepared in a summarised form to be dispatched to all the educational institutes for imparting the same to the students in a month.
The aim behind the directives was to focus on the behavioural and moral development of the new generations, said an official communiqué.
The chief secretary identified about 35 topics of moral, social, civic and ethical nature and conveyed the same to the Education Department for including in the curriculum of different classes/levels from the next academic year.
He also instructed that lessons on different topics for different classes, based on the age group of the children/students should be prepared through the involvement of educational experts from the curriculum wing.
The same would be included in the textbooks of various levels to be available for the students in the next academic year, he added.