The government will implement a new syllabus for the secondary level from 2012.
Education minister Nurul Islam Nahid said this at a daylong workshop on 'Development of Secondary Level Education' organised by the National Curriculum Textbook Board (NCTB) in Dhaka on Saturday.
The workshop was organised as a part of the Secondary Education Sector Development Project (SESDP).
The minister pointed out that curriculum is the essence of education and added that life skills should be integrated into the new syllabus based on student opinions to make studies more comprehensible.
To ensure that the new syllabus is in place in due time, the minister has already asked related officials and organisations to make required changes to the current curriculum and to finish the new career-based syllabus within 2011.
He said that following formation of the new syllabus, books will be printed by June 2011 for distribution among the students.
"The current has lost its focus on the current context." The education minister said that it should be made more contemporary so that students become more eager.
The education minister urged teachers to change their 'conservative' mentality to ensure modern education.
Moreover, he asked that some new items be included in the syllabus including proper history of the Liberation War, right to information, human rights, health consciousness, militancy, and changing men's attitude towards women.
NCTB curriculum specialist Uttam Kumar Das read out the research paper on evaluation of the secondary level curriculum.
He mentioned that 95 percent school teachers are not able to fulfil the demands of the students on the basis of national and international situation in the existing education system. Moreover, 54.50 percent college teachers and 96 percent guardians cannot fulfil the demands of the learners.
Das suggested introducing indifferent subjects in the three education systems - general, madrasa and vocational systems – at grade 9 and 10.
Speaking as special guest, education secretary Syed Ataur Rahman suggested a six-month 'action plan' for the implementation of life skill syllabus from 2012.
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