UP Board syllabus to shed flab
LUCKNOW: UP government proposes to scale down the syllabus for high school and intermediate classes under the UP Board with a view to bringing it at par with the Indian Certificate School Examination (ICSE) and Central Board for Secondary Education (CBSE).
The Curriculum Revision Committee (CRC), set up in February 2008, has been directed to “go trough all prescribed text books and prune irrelevant/ impractical subject matter” incorporated therein which has earned the UP Board the reputation of being the most cumbersome and much tougher model than the CBSE and the ICSE.
While formal recommendations will be made by year end, the exercise, says AK Mishra, principal secretary secondary education, “could bring about some major changes like introducing open book system for limited subjects on an experimental basis".
Speaking to TOI on Wednesday, Prabha Tripathi, convenor of the CRC, said “it is for the first time since the UP Board was set up that experts are concentrating on how to trim rather than adding on to the existing bulk. Over the intervening period, revisions only ended up adding more chapters or material in the lesson books. No attempt, however, was made, to strike a balance by deleting a few things at the same time,” she said.
This trend has resulted in “syllabus flab” which needs to be tackled on an urgent basis.
“The committee, in collaboration with the SCERT and panel of national experts drafted for the purpose, proposes to submit its report by the year end so that the government could consider implementation by the 2009 academic session,” she said.
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