The National Education Policy 1998-2010 gives a comprehensive list of quality inputs i.e. merit based recruitment of teachers, pre-service and in-service training, provision of career structure and system of awards and incentives; introducing learner centered instruction, improving the quality and availability of textbooks and other learning materials, improvement of curriculum, capacity building of various bodies in management and supervision of education, and reforms in examinations and assessment system.

    At the culmination of the Ministerial Meeting of the South Asia EFA Forum in May 2003, the Islamabad Declaration, acknowledging that education is the most critical lever for alleviating poverty, empowering people, and to ensure peace, solidarity and prosperity made special provisions for quality in unequivocal terms: