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Saturday, January 3, 2026
TopicCurriculum

Topic: Curriculum

SubscriberWrites: India Produces 4 million Engineers a Year. Why Are We Still Struggling with Advanced Value Engineering?

Why does a country producing more engineers than some nations' populations still rely on others for semiconductors, defence tech, and advanced industrial tools?

CBSE’s mother tongue circular has stumped school principals. Everyone’s interpreting it differently

The CBSE has given its affiliated schools time till the end of summer break to implement its directive.

NMC’s U-turn on norms that listed lesbianism as sexual offence not its first. Here’s what happened

National Medical Commission withdrew its revised guidelines for the MBBS curriculum after protests by transgender and disability rights activists.

SubscriberWrites: Teachers travel with you all your life

The teacher has the burden of the curriculum, the challenge of living up to expectations, the need to work for a livelihood, and finally, the KRAs to meet.

NCERT textbook revisions and politics go hand in hand. But it’s different this time

India’s school curriculum has undergone four revisions—in 1975, 1988, 2000 and 2005—with the last one driven by the politically contested nature of syllabus restructuring under BJP in 2000.

On Camera

Indian bureaucracy should be given incentives and rewards: MH Mody

Is there a place for a counter-bureaucracy, or a separate and competing bureaucracy to counterbalance the force of the executive’s bureaucracy, asked author MH Mody in 1980.

India’s urban co-op banks are turning the page—crisis to cautious revival, one metric at a time

With bad loans shrinking & capital buffers stronger, urban co-op banks’ new umbrella body NUCFDC is now prioritising rollout of digital transformation.

Greece looking at TATA’s WhAP infantry combat vehicle for army procurement

If deal goes through, Greece will be 2nd foreign country to procure vehicle. Morocco was first; TATA Group has set up manufacturing unit there with minimum 30 percent indigenous content.

A year-end Mea Culpa in National Interest—The Army-Islam combo doesn’t kill democracy

Many of you might think I got something so wrong in National Interest pieces written this year. I might disagree! But some deserve a Mea Culpa. I’d deal with the most recent this week.