MARKING THE 65th foundation day of the NCERT, Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan urged it to bring in the best practices of the world, and pointed to its responsibilities in nation-building, developing competencies, and improving knowledge levels. “Children need to be proficient in English…but our clarity needs to improve. Clarity will improve in our own […]
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Marking its 65th foundation day, the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) on Monday launched new initiatives, including Bal Vatika DTH TV channel and DIKSHA 2.0 to strengthen digital and inclusive learning in line with the vision of the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020. The event was attended by Union Education Minister Dharmendra […]
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The Supreme Court on Monday sought responses from the Centre, NCERT and six states, including Maharashtra, on a PIL seeking the incorporation of transgender-inclusive comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) in school curricula. A bench comprising Chief Justice B R Gavai and Justice K Vinod Chandran noted the submissions of senior advocate Gopal Sankaranarayanan, who represented the […]
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Terming NCERT’s new modules on ‘Partition Horrors Remembrance Day’ as “falsehoods, with a clear communal intent,” a resolution by the Indian History Congress (IHC) — an association of historians — said that “distorted polarizing history” is “being fed to tender minds of school going children.” The resolution, dated August 25, said, “Turning history completely upside […]
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THE PAHALHAM attack was “directly ordered by Pakistan’s military and political leadership”, and the Indian Air Force “took out command and control centres, radars, surface-to-air guided weapons, runways, and hangars with aircraft” during Operation Sindoor, breaching Pakistan’s air defence and “creating visible gaps that the world saw”, according to the NCERT’s new module on Operation […]
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“I enjoy (historical) controversies in a kind of perverse way, perhaps,” Michel Danino, 69, said during his lecture at Azim Premji University in October last year. Arguing that “historical controversies” are inherent part of the discipline, he said: “We should not shun controversies, we should desire them. We should make use of them to go […]
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Amid a controversy over a map in the new class 8 social science textbook that shows parts of Rajasthan as having been under the Marathas, the NCERT has constituted a committee to “examine feedback.” In a statement issued on Thursday, NCERT said: “At present, NCERT has received feedback about the educational content in a few […]
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NCERT is preparing two ‘modules’ on Operation Sindoor – separate publications that will not be part of the textbooks – one for classes 3 to 8, and another for classes 9 to 12, sources in the Education Ministry said. The achievements of India and the armed forces will be described in the eight to 10-page […]
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The new NCERT social science textbooks for classes 6 to 8 provide a “broad survey” of Indian civilisation from prehistoric times to Independence, and an “in-depth, detailed treatment of any period of India’s history is not only impossible, but undesirable,” according to Michel Danino, chairperson of the NCERT’s curricular area group for the new social […]
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The new NCERT Class 8 Social Science textbook skips the mention of Tipu Sultan, Haidar Ali or the Anglo-Mysore wars of 1700s in its chapter on India’s colonial era, which has been described as time when “one of the richest lands of the world had become one of the poorest”. Part 1 of the textbook […]
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