Union Minister Dr Subhas Sarkar on Tuesday said that under the National Education Policy (NEP), 2020, the focus is on promoting mother tongue and regional languages. The NEP does not intend to impose Hindi, the minister said while presiding over a meeting at Namsai district in Arunachal Pradesh. The Union Minister of State for Education […]
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The panel will be headed by Dr K Radhakrishnan, Chairperson, Board of Governors, IIT Kanpur. He is also the chairperson of the Standing Committee of IIT Council. A senior official with the MoE said, “The mandate of the committee includes strengthening the assessment and accreditation processes and preparing a road map for the National Accreditation […]
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Student enrolments in both private as well as government-aided schools in Maharashtra saw a slight improvement during the year 2021-22, showing signs of recovery after the sharp drop in enrolments during the COVID-19 period. The Unified District System for Education Plus (UDISE+) report which was released on Friday morning for all states showed that 2,25,86,695 […]
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As per official data, West Bengal, Gujarat, Bihar and Tripura are among more than a dozen states where the school dropout rate at secondary level was higher than the national average of 14.6 per cent. The central government has suggested these states to take special steps to reduce the dropout rate. This information has been […]
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THE UNION Cabinet on Wednesday approved the PM SHRI (PM Schools for Rising India) scheme under which 14,500 schools, to be identified in consultation with states and Union Territories, will be upgraded at a cost of Rs 27,360 crore over the next five years. PM SHRI will be a new Centrally sponsored scheme where the […]
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West Bengal and Tamil Nadu governments have not shared any information with the Centre on the status of implementation of the National Education Policy in the two states, 2020, according to a written response from the Ministry of Education in the Lok Sabha on Monday. “The States of West Bengal and Tamil Nadu are yet […]
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THE CENTRE has not yet received inputs from Kerala, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal and Telangana in revising the National Curriculum Framework (NCF), which will be the foundation of future NCERT textbooks, the Ministry of Education informed Lok Sabha on Monday. “NCERT has initiated the processes of development of National Curriculum Frameworks using a bottom-up approach […]
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The NCERT took a step towards rationalisation of school textbooks to facilitate speedy recovery in students learning continuum and compensate for time loss due to prolonged school closures during the COVID-19 pandemic, Union Minister of State for Education Annapurna Devi said on Monday. Devi made the statement in response to a written question in the […]
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The Covid-19 pandemic is likely to have “aggravated the silent crisis” of undernutrition in India, an inter-ministerial committee has observed, recommending that protein-rich food items like eggs, nuts and legumes, as well as micronutrients like calcium, iron, zinc, folate and vitamin A be legally mandated in meals given through food safety programmes in schools and […]
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The Ministry of Education has launched an online public survey to expand the scope of consultations relating to the ongoing work to revise the National Curriculum Framework (NCF), based on which new school textbooks will be prepared, according to an official statement. On Sunday, the ministry announced that anyone willing to provide their inputs on […]
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