The Primary Teachers’ Orientation Course, Allama Iqbal Open University

Improved standards were to be achieved by ‘implementing revised curricula, properly training and retraining teachers, and providing suitable instructional materials’ (Government of Pakistan, 1976, p. 5). The reforms affected primary, middle and secondary schools as well as teacher education and were the first major changes in education in Pakistan since 1960. This case study describes how distance education was used to update serving primary teachers in the new modernised curriculum, as one of the first programmes of the Allama Iqbal Open University.