Pakistan, Aug. 22 -- Minister for Planning, Development and Special Initiatives Professor Ahsan Iqbal on Friday stressed the need for comprehensive reforms in curriculum and teacher training to prepare students for the demands of the modern world, saying teachers must move beyond traditional lecture-based teaching.

Addressing the Mission Control Center of the National Institute of Excellence in Teacher Education (NIETE), the minister said curriculum reform could only deliver the desired results if teachers possessed the skills and capacity to teach according to the requirements of the new era.

He said that the creativity was driven by the ability to ask questions, stressing that students should be encouraged to develop curiosity, inquir...