The education minister has said the government is going to recast the curricula for Grades VI-XII, a decision the authorities want to make effective from 2013.
Nurul Islam Nahid also promised that students would get their textbooks within the first days of a new year.
The minister said the curricula of 75 books at the secondary level and four at the higher secondary level would be revised.
'We're bringing the changes to give the new generation a modern and standard education,'
Nahid told a seminar at the BIAM auditorium on Thursday.
He made the comment at a seminar, organised by the National Curriculum and Textbook Board and Secondary Education Sector Development Project.
Mentioning that the current curricula for secondary and higher secondary level education had been revised 18 years ago and launched in 1996, Nahid said, 'drafting of the books, in line with the new curricula, will be complete by March 2012.'
Emphasising on vocational and stipend-based education, the minister said, 'Vocational and modern subjects will be included from Class VI in the new curricula.'
Education secretary Kamal Abdul Naser Chowdhury presided over the seminar, titled, 'Development of Curricula in line with National Education Policy 2010'.
Source : New Age
