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Wednesday, November 12, 2025
TopicNational Education Policy

Topic: National Education Policy

Earth nearing ‘tipping point’, pseudoscience ‘dangerous’ — experts at Delhi’s India March for Science

Focus of this year’s march was on promoting scientific temper, advocating the importance of scientific research, spreading awareness about climate change, and fighting pseudoscience.

States with English-medium schools have higher wages. Look at Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Punjab

What is the point of the National Education Policy’s insistence on Sanskrit and Hindi? Marathis and Gujaratis need their own Annadurai.

Panel on new NCERT social science curriculum wants ‘Bharat’, not India, in books — ‘unanimous view’

Panel chairman Prof C.I. Issac (Retd), a historian and RSS ideologue, says committee has also suggested toning down the focus on ‘Hindu defeats’ in social sciences curriculum.

NYT’s Elite Space Club in awe & syllabus controversy

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

More ‘choice’, but also more exams — what National Curriculum Framework has in store for grades 9-12

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.

Biannual board exams, focus on practicals — National Curriculum Framework for school education

According to National Curriculum Framework for School Education 2023, students of classes 11 & 12 will have to study two languages, one of which has to be an Indian language.

Siddaramaiah govt to scrap Modi govt’s NEP, draft one of its own — ‘policy imposed on states’

In statement released to media Monday, Congress government in Karnataka cited exclusive rights over ‘state-specific subject’. BJP says NEP shouldn’t be made a ‘political event’.

Those doing politics over language to run ‘nafrat ki dukaan’ will have to shut shop after NEP, says Modi

At the third anniversary event of the National Education Policy launch, the prime minister emphasised that NEP will duly 'respect and credit' every language in the country.

Option to exit after Class 10 for vocational training, semesters in Class 11-12: NCF suggests sweeping reforms

Draft National Curriculum Framework released Thursday also eliminates concept of streams such as science, commerce & arts.

SubscriberWrites: Liberal arts education has to continuously update itself for better impact

Application of knowledge is most crucial for us to be better educated, and for India to become a nation of thinkers and doers, writes Sandeep Dutt

On Camera

Chinese chatter on Delhi-Shanghai flight — ‘normalisation’ needs more than linking the skies

Chinese commentators consistently portray India as the driver of rapprochement. New Delhi’s outreach is framed as a pragmatic, reluctant choice shaped by multiple pressures.

India’s factory data may get reality check in MoSPI’s new IIP plan, defunct factories to be dropped

MoSPI proposes to remove closed factories from IIP sample, aiming for truer picture of India’s industrial health in upcoming 2022–23 base series. Plan open to public feedback until 25 November.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.