EXCLUSIVE

THE new national curriculum has been comprehensively panned as overcrowded, incoherent, inadequate and lacking depth.

The national curriculum authority has accepted the criticism, promising to correct problems raised in 26,000 submissions from all states and territories on its plans.

The overwhelmingly negative feedback will be presented to the nation's education ministers in Canberra today. The response has forced the Australian Curriculum Assessment and Reporting Authority to go into overdrive since July to fix the problems by December when education ministers are due to meet to approve the final version of the curriculum.