Minister-Communist Karpenka: We To Exclude "Some Abstruse Things" From Textbooks

An authoritarian regime doesn't need people who are too educated.

New textbooks correspond to new academic programs. Minister of Education Ihar Karpenka announced this on the air of ONT channel.

In total, there are more than 250 textbooks. So far, not all of them have been updated (41 new textbooks were released this year). Curricula were updated for the new academic year, methodological recommendations for each subject were published.

"A teacher will clearly know what to teach from old textbook and what not to teach, – the minister noted. – All new textbooks will be published by the end of 2019." By the way, some corrections can be made at their release, it's a permanent process, he added.

An open competition is held to discuss the content of the textbooks. Ihar Karpenka invited all critics of published textbooks to participate.

As for the new academic programs, in particular, in mathematics, then, according to the minister, they excluded "some abstruse things" from them.

At the same time, Ihar Karpenka emphasized the importance of training teachers, their ability to use materials included in the academic programs and textbooks.

As for the five-grade and ten-grade scale of assessment of knowledge, the minister believes that this issue is not simple, therefore it requires wide discussion, first of all, by educators.