INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Kathmandu, November 24
Curriculum Development Centre, which had failed to introduce new curriculum for the last two years, is finally set
to implement new curriculum for Grade I and Grade XI from the next academic session, starting from mid-July.
The eighth amendment of the
Education Act, 2016 has envisioned replacing stream-based education system with single-track curriculum in Grades IX and XII.
Ganesh Prasad
Bhattarai, spokesperson for CDC, said &We have already started working on books for compulsory subjects of Grade I and XI
Similarly, we are in the final stage of designing curriculum for optional subjects of Grade XI
We will soon start publishing them too and dispatch them across the country to implement them for next year.&
The CDC has claimed that the
curriculum from Grade I to XII will be fully implemented by the academic year 2023
As per the new curriculum, students of Grades X, XI and XII are required to study three compulsory subjects — Nepali, English and Social
Studies in Grade XI and Nepali, English and Life Skills in Grade XII.
Each school is required to teach three credit hours for compulsory
subject I, four credit hours to compulsory subject II and five credit hours for compulsory subject III
One credit hour is equivalent to 32 hours classroom
Ranking system will also be completely removed with the implementation of the new curriculum.
Life Skills subject will include topics such
as decision making, problem solving and intra-personal communication strategies, among others
Nepali subject which is a compulsory subject for only Grade XI till now will be compulsory even in Grade XII.
Apart from three compulsory
subjects, students are required to study three other subjects as per their interests
Unlike, stream-based education,students can now study any subject they wish from all streams such as humanities, science, arts and law,
among others.
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