The textbooks for Class VI and VII under the new national curriculum Board is scheduled to send corrections by National Curriculum and Textbook Board (NCTB) to the educational institutes across the country this week.
These corrections are for emergency uses as these are made to mistakes in spelling or on information, said the board officials.
For 2024, they also added that, all books for Class VI and VII will be corrected in terms of adding or excluding information.
Corrections were given for Class VI’s History and Social Science, Science (Investigative Study) and Science (Exercise Book) and Class VII’s History and Social Science books.
The government introduced the new national school curriculum to Classes I, VI and VII across the country this year and soon after the distribution of free textbooks, experts pointed out that the books contained incorrect information.
On January 18, the NCTB published nine corrections to mistakes in three textbooks for Class IX and X amid widespread criticism and the education ministry on January 24 formed two committees to identify mistakes in textbooks for Classes VI and VII, recommend corrections, and identify the people responsible for the mistakes.
On February 10, the NCTB withdrew the History and Social Science Activity Book for Class VI and Class VII amid widespread criticism.
The expert committee, requested to submit a report with necessary recommendations for revising the irrelevance/mistakes/deficiency in the textbooks after identifying these, on March 28 submitted its report to the ministry.
NCTB member for curriculum professor Md Moshiuzzaman told New Age on April 13 that the board officials had visited 53 educational institutes under 26 districts between March 15 and 16 to take comments from the students and the teachers of Class VI and VII about the textbooks.
The textbook writers also visited one educational institution individually for talking with the students and the teachers about the book they had written and between March 20 and 22 the board evaluate every subject of Class VI and VII separately, he continued.
Professor Md Moshiuzzaman also said that they had also gathered all information surfaced on the social media against the textbooks under the new curriculum.
Between March 27 and 31 the NCTB had arranged a residential workshop at Savar where the writers of the textbooks were invited and all suggestions were given to them to correct the textbooks if they want to, he said.
‘We will send the emergency corrections to spelling or information for textbooks of Class VI and VII via online to all educational institutes on April 16 or 17,’ he said.
The board member said that all books of these classes would be corrected for the academic year of 2024.
The expert committee gave corrections to spelling on 21 pages of the Class VI’s History and Social Science book, he said.
For the Class VI’s Science (Investigative Study) book the committee gave total 89 corrections to the spelling and information.
