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Tuesday, April 7, 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.

To learn ‘best practices’, govt curriculum panel meets Ramakrishna Mission, Alim Madrasah, others

Central govt committee set up last year to develop new blueprint for school syllabi across the country is also consulting NGOs, corporates, teachers, parents & others.

Haryana, Karnataka, Gujarat — BJP states make school textbook changes & reignite old debate

Political players defend decisions to tweak textbooks as a response to rivals' attempts to manipulate the narrative. But historians and academic experts say it's a dangerous trend.

Addition of Yogi, Ramdev’s books in syllabus part of continued attack on academic spaces

Campus Voice is an initiative by ThePrint where young Indians get an opportunity to express their opinions on a prevalent issue.

Indian madrasas are thought-influencers. Their funding, modernisation should be priority

The government of India would do well to help madrasas use their institutions in teaching Indian Muslims to assimilate their identity as ‘Indian’ and ‘Muslim’, together.

On Camera

Syringes, MRI to ventilators, West Asia war squeezing India’s medical supply chain—costs up 10 to 50%

Industry says manufacturers have 2-4 weeks of buffer stocks, but prolonged disruption could push up shortage risks, especially of consumables like IV and syringes.

UAE walks away from financing Rafale F5 due to restricted access to technology, reports French media

French newspaper La Tribune earlier last week indicated that UAE withdrew from deal to fund EUR 3.5 billion. India is looking to order 114 new Rafales, which could include the F5.

China insulated itself against energy shocks. India is ‘all talk, no walk’

China patiently invested capital, skill and technology in coal gasification. Unlike it, we won’t move from words to action. As crude prices decline, we lose interest.