AN “enhanced version” of the K to 12 curriculum will be released by the end of the year, the Department of Education said.

“We have committed to Education Secretary Leonor Briones that the shape of the enhanced version, the 2022 version of the K-12 curriculum, will be ready before the end of this year,” Education Undersecretary Diosdado San Antonio said.

“We will be having consultations with appropriate bodies so that the voices of everybody will be heard,” San Antonio added.

The DepEd’s curriculum and instruction office will first review the curriculum in Kindergarten and Grades 1 to 3, the official said.

He added that the department will come up with learning that will not be “congested.”

“What was very obvious was the congestion of competencies. We have to come up with a set of learning competencies that will not be congested, but skills that the children need to become independent learners in the future,” San Antonio said.