It aligns with 2023 National Curriculum Framework, updated to reflect NEP, which aims to reduce high-stakes nature of board exams by allowing students two attempts per year.
Though Kerala HC has deferred order to implement three-language policy, residents point at growing frictions involving controversial policy changes & regulations in past few years.
New Class 7 social science textbook is latest in NCERT’s revamped series under NEP 2020 and new NCF, which stresses content ‘rooted in the Indian and local context and ethos’.
Haryana proposes students be taught that Maharishi Kanada is father of atomic theory not John Dalton. YSRCP-led Andhra says need to 'not succumb to superstition in name of antiquity'.
NCF, released Wednesday, envisions sweeping changes for grades 9-12. These include twice-yearly board exams for grades 10 & 12, more study subjects, and end of traditional stream system.
Rhymes like ‘Chanda mama door ke’, ‘Murga bole kukdu ku’ are among the new additions. Kids in stories & poems greet each other with ‘namaste’, ‘shubh ratri’ and ‘suprabhat’.
Responding to letter by Textbook Development Committee members, NCERT says function & term of committees have ended, adding names of academics just an acknowledgement of their contribution.
Once we give up this myth of school textbooks as the fountain of truth and the child as an empty vessel, we can take a more sober view of what textbooks can and cannot do.
New National Curriculum Framework for School Education says schools may do this so teachers 'remain standing and in moving condition'. Draft currently open to feedback from stakeholders.
Weak governance, corruption and poverty continue to define tribal life in India. The introduction of industrial and mining projects has benefited contractors, politicians and officials more than Adivasis.
Clean energy is “no longer the sideshow, it is the show”, BVR Subrahmanyam told the Odisha summit, warning India to lead the global shift or risk others’ tech dominance.
Dubai airshow crash & pilot death have rekindled concerns over pilot safety, and need for smarter automated systems that can step in when G-forces, temporary loss of consciousness hit the pilot.
None of Pakistan’s PMs has lasted 5 years. That the current PM has given Asim Munir 5 years shows that of all military dictatorships history has seen, Pakistan’s is most creative.
COMMENTS