BHAKTAPUR, DEC 03 - Children attending community schools (public schools) will soon have colour textbooks, optional booklets and supplementary reference materials to choose from. They will also have the freedom to choose from a diverse range of textbooks from a variety of writers and publishers to broaden their intellectual horizon.
The Curriculum Development Centre (CDC), which oversees the designing of curriculum and writing of textbooks, is currently working on revising the old contents and giving a fresh start to school education.
It is also contemplating framing a "national curriculum" and incorporating the 10+2 in the school-level education.
Colour textbooks, supplementary reading materials, providing multiple textbook choices and national curriculum framework are some of the reform programmes in the pipeline, said Shiva Prasad Satyal, director general at the CDC. Satyal, who is retiring tomorrow was speaking to The Kathmandu Post.
Satyal said the whole design was to upgrade the school education under a single national curriculum framework and improve the quality of school education, with a focus on making the course contents oriented towards generation of skills and jobs in future.
The present textbooks supplied by the Janak Educational Enterprises are without colour graphics and lack charm. And as the textbooks are supplied free of charge in government primary level, they is little colour and attraction in them as it involves expenditure.
Ramesh Prasad Gautam, headmaster of the capital’s Padmodaya School says pupils desire colour textbooks especially in Social Studies, Science and English.
He said that the government currently supplies only reference materials in colour graphics.
The on-going donor mission has also raised the matter to the government to provide multiple textbooks.
The government under the Secondary Education Support Programme (SESP) has a similar plan to provide multiple textbooks to schools and upgrade the quality of textbooks and their contents.
"The CDC is soon holding a consultative workshop involving experts and will recommend the government on these new measures," said Jaganath Awa, director at the CDC.
"The CDC is also updating the course contents and the curriculum in grades 9 and 10 within this year," he said.
"If everything goes as planned, the government we will soon have a national curriculum framework to incorporate the existing 10+2 schools in the school-level," he added.Posted on: 2003-12-02 10:50

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