12-09-2004

Environment conscious curriculum for schools soon

via www.dawn.com

Pakistan’s Minister for Environment [has] said environment-related subjects would be introduced in school curriculum after consultation with the ministry of education. He stated this while inaugurating a one-day workshop on “Promotion of environmental issues through social mobilization, interpersonal communication and advocacy”, organized by Islamabad Resource Centre of the National Conservation Strategy of the ministry of environment.

He said a strategy would be evolved in order to provide job opportunities to those who had received degrees in environment related subjects. At present, he said, there were about six or seven universities which offered degrees in environment sciences, but the country was yet to utilise their services due to unavailability of jobs…