THE Education Department has taken the unprecedented step of asking nine publishers to sign a guarantee they will print textbooks for a new curriculum to be introduced next year.
The publishers, who submitted samples of some of the learning material they had in mind to the department in September, said the move was a bad precedent and had no reasonable grounds.
But they still signed the agreement on Tuesday after rewriting the draft.
The department's draft was a confirmation that publishers would print learning material for the implementation of the Target Oriented Curriculum next September.
The publishers rewrote the draft as an indication of their intent to print the material if there were no unpredicted circumstances.
The agreement carried no contractual obligation and was for record purposes only.
