Unit-1 - Education in Pakistan in Historical Perspectives

1.1 Continuation of the Inherited System from the British 

For finding the beginning of the educational progress, we will have to go back to the historical background of the subcontinent The seventh period of the new education in South Asia started from 1929 A.D and lasted up to 1947. i.e. till the creation of Pakistan. In 1929 A.D, the Aid Committee of the Indian Statutory Commission, for the first time, surveyed the whole structure of the Indian in South Asia. The committee recommended the reconstruction of the primary education system on sound footing. The committee opposed the holding of separate examinations for professional and general subjects. But in view of the circumstances prevailing in South Asia then, the Indian Statutory Commission was boycotted. Therefore in 1938 and then in 1939 A.D, the Zakir Hussain Committee was constituted to review the possibility of a general free education programme up to class 8th. This committee submitted its recommendations regarding the end of illiteracy in south Asia. In 1944, the Advisory Board of Education included these recommendations into its report.