THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The curriculum of school education in the state will be revised from the next academic year, said General Education Minister C Raveendranath.
The decision on revising the school curriculum was taken in a school curriculum steering committee meeting held on Tuesday. The State Council of Educational Research and Training (SCERT) has been entrusted with implementing it.
SCERT was earlier entrusted with overviewing the textbooks and make an entrepreneur-friendly environment in the classrooms as part of curriculum revision. Hence, the necessary changes will be made in the textbooks of Classes IX and X and the curriculum committee has given its approval in the meeting.
Similarly, the meeting also decided to label the Quick Response Code (QRC) on the textbooks. A total of 45,000 classes rooms have been converted to hi-tech. Malappuram district has the highest number of hi-tech classrooms (5,096), followed by Kozhikode (4,105) and Thrissur (3,497).
Raveendranath said National Skills Qualifications Framework (NSQF) will be implemented in the 2018-19 academic year as per the directions of the Ministry of Human Resources.
Sugathakumari, poet and steering committee member who took part in the meeting, emphasised the inclusion of more poems in the textbooks.
Poet and another member V Madhusoodanan Nair recommended the inclusion of grammar.
Several suggestions also came in the meeting to determine the equivalence to various certificates. The members also suggested submitting a report on the time period of class hours. General Education Secretary A Shahjahan, DPI K V Mohan Kumar, SCERT director J Prasad, SSA director K P Kuttykrishnan and curriculum committee members also attended the meeting.
The curriculum was revised during the tenure of the previous UDF Government.
Earlier, the panel rejected some of the recommended changes in the textbooks. It was also earlier decided the recommendation for changes in Class IX and X social science textbook should be examined afresh by the committee.