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The government has taken initiatives to revise the textbook curriculums from pre-primary to secondary levels after seven years to ensure that the students remain in tune with the changing perspectives and necessities of the current world, reports New Age. Revision of curriculum for pre-primary and primary levels has already been started this year while the authorities are scheduled to start revising curriculum of secondary and higher secondary levels from next year. All textbooks, with revised curriculum, would likely to be published by 2022, said National Curriculum and Textbook Board officials. The board officials said that the last time the curriculum has been restructured was in 2012. Since the independence national curriculum had been revised for three or four times, including the revision in 1996, said The Board chairman Professor Narayan Chandra Saha.
He told New Age recently that textbooks should be revised at an interval — once every five years — to ensure that the curriculum sync with the changing scenario of the world.
The trend, however, had not been followed in Bangladesh for a long time, he said and added that an initiative was taken in 2017 to revise the curriculum which has not taken place.
Narayan Chandra Saha said that the revision of curriculum needed time as it was related to various issues including national tradition and ideology, socio-economic status and the level of skills of the students.