Is the Ministry of Education and Training planning to build new curriculums?
It is necessary to discuss compilation thoroughly. Let’s consider students in Nepal. In the country, students finishing 10th class are considered as having enough general knowledge. Therefore, from 11th class, students choose one of four major groups to study, and they have to learn four subjects only in each group. As there are only several subjects, students can learn to get deep knowledge. The textbook for biology, for example, has 700 pages. I think that it would be better to let scientific associations come forward and organise the compilation of curriculums, since the organisations gather leading scientists in the fields. The curriculums would need to be ratified by the National Assembly before they are applied. When will we need many textbooks instead of one set of textbooks, then? When we are able to build up standard curriculums, we will have many sets of textbooks like in other countries. In principle, textbooks need to follow the standard curriculums. I think that nowhere el
