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The importance to revise and update any curricula is essential. There has to be a regular, detailed and rigorous process to review specific benchmarks, suggested material and books, pedagogical trends and assessment methods. This process is fundamental to all subjects across all grades. However, the importance of curriculum development and review is important for the subject of "Education" as it is the foundation of the entire teaching-learning system. This research particularly was aimed to look into the effectiveness of the curriculum of Education envisioned for graduate studies in college in Karachi so as to gauge its impact and outcome as against the global standards. It also investigates to what extent the curriculum of Education is able to explore contemporary ideological and pragmatic curricular, pedagogical and assessment issues, frequency of curriculum revision and strategies employed for it; challenges in effective implementation of curriculum and verification of its desirable outcome in context of academic and professional requirement for graduate students.