Education curriculum to be piloted in May forges disproportionate emphasis on competition

The education curriculum to be piloted in May has sparked concerns and conspicuously missing in its tenets is the competition factor. The curriculum adopts formative evaluation system and ditches the former summative method thus forging disproportionate emphasis on competition.

Formative evaluation is designed to help students identify their skills. It helps faculties identify and solve problematic areas to students. Otherwise, it scraps national exams and is insistent on Continuous Assessment Tests (CAT).