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An Education Ministry board has approved a new curriculum after the major change sparked debate over its renewed content and scope.

Since unveiling the comprehensive curriculum change efforts at the end of last year, the ministry has refrained from delineating precise subjects slated for exclusion from educational programs.

The Education Ministry has unveiled a much-anticipated extensive curriculum overhaul that will cover educational programs of primary, middle and high school students, aiming to simplify the current education model by 35 percent.

The Education Ministry will declare details of its sweeping curriculum revision for elementary, middle and high school students by the end of this month.

Following last year's announcement on the works of comprehensive curriculum change, the ministry's reticence in divulging the full scope of the alterations has sparked speculation.

The Education Ministry is working on a comprehensive curriculum amendment that will encompass all grade levels, aiming to simplify course contents, minister Yusuf Tekin has announced.

As the new school year starts in Poland, the ruling party is overhauling the social studies curriculum supposedly to improve students' historical consciousness. But with a single new textbook, critics warn this is no less than an attempt to indoctrinate youth.

Τhe Education Ministry has proposed reforms to the senior high school curriculum as part of a bill to be put up for public discourse soon. 

The bill foresees more hours for languages and information technology and the return of Latin to the senior high curriculum.

The Ministry of Education and Science (MON) proposes a modifications in the general and specialized education regulations, which delegates greater autonomy to teachers in methodological planning and teaching according to the capabilities of the class students.

The Turkish education system will aim for a more diverse curriculum and fewer school hours for students, Education Minister Ziya Selçuk has announced at an event where he introduced a new reform program.

The National Union of Theologians is urging school teachers to boycott religious education classes in protest at changes introduced by Greece's leftist-led government.

Jihad, the Greek Civil War, genocides, minority rights, the Holocaust, syndicalism, the modern refugee crisis - these are some of the topics that a working group of historians will be adding to the history curriculum of the new education program at schools, Kathimerini has learned.