OUR so-called national education policies, which have been formulated and promulgated in the past, did not conform to the technical standards and requirements of an education policy document.

Some of these were simply suggestive of guidelines for preparing an education policy, while others represented particular government’s programs of educational reform and development. Their implementation, therefore, had been subjected to individual government’s own priorities and political commitments. Of course, each new government had its own programs and priorities, which, did not necessarily coincide with those of the outgoing regime. Each new government, therefore, came up with its own education policy.

At least once it so happened that while the same party came into power it came up a still new education policy. This created, practically, a situation of absence of an effective and acceptable education policy that could perpetuate and outlive the change of government in the country. Under the circumstances it is deemed inevitable to prepare nation’s education policy in the form of a National Education Act as it is in many developed countries of the world. This will give the nation’s education policy force of law and ensure its continuance and enforcement without being affected by change of governments in the country. Such a policy document shall provide definite directions and reference points to all education sector reforms and developments.

The national education act provides for: a) Establishment of a national education system which has its own........

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