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Education ministry officials on Saturday confirmed that a new school curriculum had not been suspended amid a confusion raised in this regard.

Suleman Khan, secretary of the Secondary and Higher Education Division under the ministry, said that the new interim government did take any such decision.


‘It requires much discussion and then an executive order to suspend the curriculum,’ he also said that day.

Confusion occurred after some television media broadcast news in this regard this day.

The National Curriculum and Textbook Board issued a press release saying that suspending the new curriculum was not true and that its reporting as news is also not true. 

The board suspended a workshop on the curriculum scheduled to start from today in Bogura, it added.

NCTB chairman professor Farhadul Islam told ¶¶Òõ¾«Æ· on Saturday that the board had no jurisdiction to suspend the curriculum as it is a policy decision.

He mentioned that the four-day workshop was on the curriculum of the Class IV and V textbooks.

In 2023, the government introduced the new national school curriculum to Classes I, VI and VII across the country.

This year the students of Classes of II, III, VIII and IX also came under the new curriculum.

The students of Classes of IV, V and X remained under the curriculum of 2012, the classes of which will come under the latest curriculum in 2025 and by 2027 it will be implemented for the students of Class XII.

Following the implementation, the curriculum drew huge criticism started due to new learning, teaching and evaluation methods and content in textbooks.