Education curricula have been reviewed

THE Prime Minister’s appeal to parents to push the Education Department to review the education system struck me as odd (The National, March 8).
Did the reporter get it right? Does the Prime Minister not know that the curricula have been reviewed?
Is the Prime Minister saying that the 1993 to 1994 implementation did not go far enough?
What impact can the parents have on any further process or change if the Education Minister and the authorities are not providing the funds to ensure any follow through of the reforms already worked on?
The minister should take a drive to the CODE centre for flexible, open and distance learning to check out just how hamstrung it is to go ahead with an aspect of the very reform suggested.
A task Force Review Team’s investigation of the operations of FODE since 2005 (and maybe earlier) is taking “forever” to draw out funds from the Government to change a curricula that is so outdated that, for example, the social science Grade 10 programme still has Sir Michael Somare only as the first prime minister, and Indonesia as still a non-democratic neighbour.
How could the Prime Minister make such an address when it seems to be his Government’s nature to collaborate so tardily with the initiatives that responsible people have already taken?

L.B. Teodori
Aitape district

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