Major curriculum overhaul planned for 2028 academic session: Mahdi Amin

Prime Minister's Education and Primary and Mass Education Adviser and spokesperson of his office Mahdi Amin has said the government has taken initiatives to rearrange the country's education sector, combining merit, morality and human values, and ensuring quality education.

To this end, the country's curriculum is being redesigned from the 2028 academic year as a comprehensive reform of the entire curriculum, he said.

As the first step, new subjects on the Fourth Industrial Revolution, artificial intelligence and sports will be included to the curriculum from next year (2027 academic year), he told BSS in an exclusive interview here recently.

Mahdi Amin highlighted the government's visionary outline for the education structure, comprehensive curriculum reforms, teacher evaluation, rehabilitation of dropped out students, and industry-academia collaboration and employment exchange.

He said Prime Minister Tarique Rahman has clearly mentioned that the education sector is the top priority of his government.

According to the BNP government's election manifesto, the issue of forming an Education Reform Commission to restore discipline in the education system is being considered with utmost importance, he said.

However, the education adviser said, as an interim measure, the government is revising, adding and subtracting as much as possible in the textbooks for the next academic year (2027).

Comprehensive reforms will be brought in the curriculum for the 2028 academic year, he said, adding that this would make it possible to create a sustainable and groundbreaking curriculum outline in the country in global context.

The adviser said from the next academic year, four new books and subjects are being added to the country's primary and secondary levels.

From the class-IV, sports and physical education-based books - 'Sports and Culture' and from class-VI, 'Learning with Happiness' and 'Technical Education' are being included in the curriculum, said Mahdi Amin.

He said the aim of the government's new steps is to introduce students to robotics, artificial intelligence (AI) and modern education based on the technology of the fourth industrial revolution.

On the qualitative change in the results of SSC and equivalent examinations and the transparency of evaluation, Mahdi Amin said, "During the fascist regime, GPA-5 was artificially surged to make statistics look good."

"There was a culture of passing without even taking the exam. We have stopped that suicidal path. This time, no grace marks were given. Students got their GPA and genuine (correct) results in a 100-percent fair and transparent evaluation," he added.