Nepal School Curriculum Update: Expanded Language Choices for Grades 10-12
The group of courses that students studying at the school level can choose has been added. With the addition of the new group, students studying in grades 10, 11 and 12 will now be able to study the language of their choice.
This decision was made at a recent meeting of the Curriculum Development Center. The meeting has revised the curriculum by creating a separate group of languages ââspoken in Nepal. Earlier, school-level students had to choose their subjects from the optional first and optional second groups in addition to the compulsory subjects.
After creating a separate group of languages, students allow to choose subjects from three groups. Earlier, other subjects were also included in the language-related curriculum group. Due to which, after students chose one subject, they were not able to study another.
The first group of elective courses created by the Curriculum Development Center included subjects related to languages ââsuch as Nepali, Maithili, Arabic, Bhojpuri, along with mathematics, economics, geography, history, civics, population studies, marketing, and environmental science.
It was arranged for school-level students to study only one elective subject from this group. Now, after creating a separate group for language, students will be able to choose both subjects, the Curriculum Development Center has stated.
Earlier, the four groups in grades 11 and 12 were expanded to five groups, including language.
Director General of the Curriculum Development Center, Im Narayan Shrestha, said that students will be able to choose three subjects from the five groups. The Curriculum Development Center currently has 30 courses related to language.
Minister for Education, Science and Technology, Bidya Bhattarai, informed that the curriculum has been revised to address the problem of students being deprived of studying the language of their choice as other subjects and language are in the same group.
