Change brings hope for pupils

THE outcome-based education curriculum failed in this country but that does not mean the standard-based curriculum will suffer the same fate, an official says.
Morobe education programme adviser Keith Jiram made the comment during the opening of a week-long training of trainers’ workshop for school inspectors and lecturers.
Outcome-based education is more systematic where students are expected to achieve a specific outcome, whereas, with standard-based curriculum, students directly access resources to reason and extract information at their own ability.
“We realised that when the outcome-based curriculum was rolled out, there was a lack of knowledge of content by graduates,” Jiram said.
“When teachers went out to schools, they found it difficult to implement the outcome-based curriculum.
“Outcome-based curriculum failed because everyone did not take it seriously, for standard-based, we are taking it seriously.”