Curriculum is weak, minister admits

Curriculum is weak, minister admits

SAMARINDA, East Kalimantan: Minister of National Education Abdul Malik Fadjar admitted on Tuesday that the curriculum had major weaknesses.

The basic weakness was that the curriculum lagged behind the rapid developments in science and technology, Malik Fadjar said.

"In fact 75 percent of the efforts to improve university curriculum should be aimed at making it relevant to science and technology," he said after swearing in Rachmad Hernadi as the Mulawarman University rector.

Malik Fadjar said that high on its agenda of developing national education was improvements in the curriculum which also gave more emphasis on humanity.

He said that science and technology had been largely dealt with outside the curriculum, such as seminars. --Antara