Schools Obliged to Implement Curriculum 2013: Former Minister

Surabaya, E Java (Antara) - Former education and culture minister Mohammad Nuh said schools based on a ministerial decree signed by Education and Culture Minister Anies Baswedan are obliged to implement Curriculum 2013 until 2019/2020. "All schools are obliged to implement Curriculum 2013 at the 2019/2020 academic year at the latest and at the 'latest' can mean beginning from now," the former minister said here on Sunday. In the minister's decree No. 160/2014, the government specified that schools which had implemented Curriculum 2013 for three semesters were obliged to continue implementing it but if they object to implement it they can propose to use Curriculum 2006. "The decree also regulates that schools which have implemented Curriculum 2013 for only one semester should re-use Curriculum 2006. Those who have not yet implemented Curriculum 2013 will be prepared to accept mentoring Curriculum 2013," the former minister said. He said that training and mentoring on Curriculum 2013 will begin in the 2015/2016 academic year. This means it will last for three years until the 2018/2019 academic year. The is because Curriculum 2013 must be implemented in the 2019/2020 academic year at the latest. "So, schools which are now ready for it can just propose to start joining the training and mentoring programs this year for implementing Curriculum 2013 in the 2015/2016 academic year," Nuh said. (*)