Govt out to revise unpopular 1997 school curriculum<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): The government has set up a team to revise the
\n1994 curriculum for elementary and junior high schools, widely
\ncriticized for overburdening students and their teachers.<\/p>\n
Minister of Education and Culture Juwono Sudarsono said here
\nyesterday the team was expected to be able to finish its task
\nwithin a year to allow an amended curriculum to be introduced in
\nthe 2000-2001 academic year.<\/p>\n
Antara news agency reported Juwono acknowledged the current
\ncurriculum for elementary, junior and senior high schools was
\nburdensome for students and faculty and needed to be reviewed
\nimmediately.<\/p>\n
He added that many elementary and junior high school teachers
\nexperienced difficulties in applying the curriculum because they
\ndid not have the necessary training.<\/p>\n
The government will therefore require elementary school
\nteachers to have at least a D-2 diploma certification, junior
\nhigh school teachers to have D-3 diploma certification and senior
\nhigh school teachers to be S-1 university graduates, he said.<\/p>\n
Education experts and observers have frequently criticized the
\ncurriculum overly demanding and only suitable for academically
\noutstanding students.<\/p>\n
Antara reported educators said a number of disciplines such as
\nmath, physics and chemistry were considered to involve too many
\nclass hours even though some materials overlapped.<\/p>\n
Juwono also announced yesterday the government had frozen an
\nindoctrination course in the Pancasila state ideology for new
\nuniversity students, pending the decision of BP7, the agency in
\ncharge of the dissemination of Pancasila, on whether to
\ndiscontinue the program. (rms)<\/p>",
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