CBSE prohibits non-NCERT, SCERT books in schools
7 months, 3 weeks ago

CBSE prohibits non-NCERT, SCERT books in schools

New Indian Express  

NEW DELHI: The Delhi Education Department has issued a directive to all recognised private schools, prohibiting textbooks for elementary classes that are not prescribed by the National Council of Educational Research and Training or the State Council of Educational Research and Training. As per the directives, schools mandating students to study textbooks not included in the prescribed list of NCERT or SCERT will be in violation of the RTE Act. In April this year, the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights had written to states asking them to issue directions making it clear that if any school forces the children to study textbooks for elementary classes other than those prescribed by NCERT or respective the SCERTs, it will be construed as a violation of Right to Education Act 2009. Calling the directions “unworkable”, Ashok Agarwal, president of All India Parents’ Association, said, “In such matters, authorities cannot control private schools as the schools can easily convince parents to have private publications books in addition to NCERT books.”

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Centre Scraps No Detention Policy for Classes 5, 8
3 months ago

Centre Scraps No Detention Policy for Classes 5, 8

Deccan Chronicle  

New Delhi: The Centre has scrapped the “no-detention policy” for classes 5 and 8 in schools allowing them to fail students who do not clear the year-end exams. “If the child appearing in the re-examination fails to fulfil the promotion criteria again, he shall be held back in fifth class or eighth class, as the case may be. During the …

Centre scraps 'no-detention policy' for classes 5 and 8 students in schools governed by it
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3 months ago

Centre scraps 'no-detention policy' for classes 5 and 8 students in schools governed by it

Hindustan Times  

The Centre has scrapped the 'no-detention policy' for classes 5 and 8 in schools governed by it allowing them to fail students who do not clear the year-end exams, according to officials. Central Board of Secondary Education affiliated schools will also promote all students of classes I to VIII to the next grade in view of the present coronavirus inflicted …

CBSE issues guidelines for textbooks to align with national frameworks, avoid offensive content
7 months, 2 weeks ago

CBSE issues guidelines for textbooks to align with national frameworks, avoid offensive content

New Indian Express  

NEW DELHI: The Central Board of Secondary Education issued new guidelines to improve the selection and use of textbooks in schools, with these changes taking effect from August 12, 2024. Regarding content responsibility, schools must carefully select any supplementary books or materials from private publishers, ensuring that they do not contain content that could be deemed offensive to any social, …

NCERT faces criticism for omitting Preamble to Constitution from Class III and VI textbooks
7 months, 3 weeks ago

NCERT faces criticism for omitting Preamble to Constitution from Class III and VI textbooks

New Indian Express  

NEW DELHI: The National Council for Educational Research and Training has come under fire for dropping the Preamble to the Constitution from Class III and VI textbooks. She emphasised on Monday that the new textbooks give significant importance to various aspects of the Indian Constitution, including the preamble, fundamental duties, fundamental rights, and the national anthem. New textbooks for Class …

RTE quota: Bombay HC junks Maharashtra govt notification giving conditional exemption to private schools
8 months, 1 week ago

RTE quota: Bombay HC junks Maharashtra govt notification giving conditional exemption to private schools

The Hindu  

The Bombay High Court on July 19 quashed and set aside a February 9, 2024 notification of the Maharashtra government that exempted private schools from providing 25% Right to Education Act quota admissions to disadvantaged and economically weaker students in class 1 and preschool sections within a kilometre radius of government-run or aided schools. Setting aside the rules as unconstitutional …

Act against schools denying admission to kids under RTE, DG tells DMs in Uttar Pradesh
8 months, 2 weeks ago

Act against schools denying admission to kids under RTE, DG tells DMs in Uttar Pradesh

Hindustan Times  

LUCKNOW Only 50% of students eligible for admission to private schools under the Right to Education Act made the cut this session. Of the 1.65 lakh eligible candidates across UP, only 72,044 were given admission by private schools, said Kanchan Verma, director-general. Government officials said the schools were demanding unnecessary documents from parents despite their children/wards’ selection after fulfilling all …

New NCERT textbooks delayed, Class 6 students to go to school without books
8 months, 3 weeks ago

New NCERT textbooks delayed, Class 6 students to go to school without books

The Hindu  

Students of Class 6 will be without textbooks for Mathematics, Science and Social Sciences as schools open for the academic year 2024-25 this month. NCERT had said that in 2024-25, students of Classes 3 and 6 will get new books. The deadline was later revised, and it was decided that only students of Classes 3 and 6 will get new …

NCERT to release new textbooks only for classes 3 to 6: CBSE to schools
1 year ago

NCERT to release new textbooks only for classes 3 to 6: CBSE to schools

Hindustan Times  

The National Council of Educational Research and Training will release new syllabus and textbooks only for classes 3rd to 6th, and there will be no change in the Curriculum and textbooks for other classes for the academic year 2024-25 commencing from April 1, according to an official communication by the Central Board of Secondary Education to its affiliated schools. NCERT …

'Lagging Behind CBSE': Kerala High Court Directs SCERT To Show Proposed Textbooks Inculcating Prevention-Oriented Curriculum For School Children
1 year, 2 months ago

'Lagging Behind CBSE': Kerala High Court Directs SCERT To Show Proposed Textbooks Inculcating Prevention-Oriented Curriculum For School Children

Live Law  

The Kerala High Court has directed the SCERT to make available textbooks with 'prevention-oriented curriculum' for the perusal of the Court which will be printed soon for imparting prevention-based awareness to children from the next academic year in schools. Justice Bechu Kurian Thomas directed thus: “Special Government Pleader for the State Education Department shall make available the textbooks that are …

CBSE cancels registration of 26 schools in Bihar due to facility issues
1 year, 3 months ago

CBSE cancels registration of 26 schools in Bihar due to facility issues

India Today  

The Central Board of Secondary Education has wielded its authority by cancelling the registration of 26 schools in Bihar due to their failure to meet the board's prescribed standards for educational facilities. FEE DISCREPANCIES AND INADEQUATE FACILITIES These schools, including prominent names like Patna Muslim High School, AVN English School, and Doon Public School, amongst others scattered across various districts …

Common school syllabus, board not in child’s interest, CBSE tells Supreme Court
1 year, 5 months ago

Common school syllabus, board not in child’s interest, CBSE tells Supreme Court

The Hindu  

The Central Board of Secondary Education has objected to a plea in the Supreme Court for a uniform board and school curriculum, saying such a move does not take into account local context, culture and language, besides the power of individual States to frame their own syllabus, curriculum and conduct examinations for their schools. The National Curriculum Framework, developed by …

Kerala CM to release textbooks adding portions removed by NCERT
1 year, 7 months ago

Kerala CM to release textbooks adding portions removed by NCERT

India Today  

On Wednesday, the Left government in Kerala said it would bring out additional textbooks, which include the portions that had been removed earlier by the National Council of Educational Research and Training, for the 11 and 12th standards. Announcing the government's decision, State General Education Minister V Sivankutty said here that the additional textbooks would be brought out on August …

Kerala govt to release textbooks adding portions deleted by NCERT for classes 11th and 12th
1 year, 7 months ago

Kerala govt to release textbooks adding portions deleted by NCERT for classes 11th and 12th

India TV News  

Kerala Textbooks, Kerala NCERT textbooks: Kerala government has decided to bring out the additional textbooks which include the deleted portion that had been removed earlier by the National Council of Educational Research and Training for classes 11th and 12th. The State General Education Minister V Sivankutty said that the additional textbooks would be release on August 23 by Chief Minister …

Why is Kerala Changing NCERT Curriculum and Reason Behind Some States Opposing NEP
1 year, 7 months ago

Why is Kerala Changing NCERT Curriculum and Reason Behind Some States Opposing NEP

News 18  

The Kerala education department is set to roll out supplementary textbooks for classes XI and XII in September, which will have the portions recently deleted by the National Council for Educational Research and Training as part of its “syllabus rationalisation” process. Kerala, like several other southern and Opposition-ruled states, has been at the odds with the Centre over the recent …

Madrasas violate student rights, children’s body tells Allahabad HC
1 year, 10 months ago

Madrasas violate student rights, children’s body tells Allahabad HC

The Hindu  

In an intervention application before the Allahabad High Court, in a matter pertaining to religious education imparted in institutions at the government’s expense, the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights has submitted that the education given to children in madrasas is not adequate or comprehensive. The court, while hearing a petition filed by Azaj Ahmad who teaches in a …

Kerala curriculum committee suggests measures to state govt to cover deleted NCERT portions
1 year, 11 months ago

Kerala curriculum committee suggests measures to state govt to cover deleted NCERT portions

India Today  

The Kerala curriculum steering committee held a meeting on Tuesday and made suggestions to the state government to include portions excluded by NCERT. Earlier, minister V Sivankutty had said that the state will include the deleted portions in the Kerala school syllabus. The state government had opposed NCERT's move and CM Pinarayi Vijayan had said the decision to remove a …

Schools Students to Study Lesser Books, NCERT asks Experts to Review Syllabi
3 years, 3 months ago

Schools Students to Study Lesser Books, NCERT asks Experts to Review Syllabi

News 18  

The National Council of Educational Research and Training has decided to reduce the syllabus and textbooks for the academic sessions 2022-23 for all classes. On December 15, NCERT Director-in-Charge Sridhar Srivastava ordered the heads of departments to conduct a review involving internal and external experts to discuss the topics that can be excluded from the syllabus this time. The new …

NCERT to review syllabus and textbooks with aim to reduce burden on students
3 years, 3 months ago

NCERT to review syllabus and textbooks with aim to reduce burden on students

India Today  

On December 15, Sridhar Srivastava, the National Council of Educational Research and Training director in charge wrote a letter to the heads of departments of the council. In his letter, Srivastava mentioned that keeping in view the disruptions hit by Covid19, NCERT plans to make a ‘’speedy recovery’’ in students’ learning from the next academic year. He added that NCERT …

Ludhiana education department faces flak for snubbing teachers, delay in NCERT textbooks
3 years, 4 months ago

Ludhiana education department faces flak for snubbing teachers, delay in NCERT textbooks

Hindustan Times  

Additional deputy commissioner Rahul Chaba and member of the Sikhya Sudhar Committee on Thursday grilled officials of the district education department for reprimanding teachers who voiced their concerns over students of some government school students not receiving their NCERT textbooks with just 17 days left for their board exams. Members of the Sikhya Sudhar Committee had pulled up officials of …

Reopening Schools Without Providing Textbooks To Children Is Meaningless: Karnataka High Court Directs State To File Status Report
3 years, 7 months ago

Reopening Schools Without Providing Textbooks To Children Is Meaningless: Karnataka High Court Directs State To File Status Report

Live Law  

"Asking students to attend schools without providing them textbooks and notebooks is meaningless and purposeless," the Karnataka High Court observed on Tuesday. It thus directed the State government to place on record a status report indicating the steps taken to provide textbooks to the students of standards 9th and 10th, studying in government and aided institutions. A division bench of …

'Forced To Prescribe NCERT & CISCE Approved Textbooks': Punjab And Haryana High Court Issues Notice On CBSE Affiliated Schools' Petition
3 years, 10 months ago

'Forced To Prescribe NCERT & CISCE Approved Textbooks': Punjab And Haryana High Court Issues Notice On CBSE Affiliated Schools' Petition

Live Law  

The Punjab and Haryana High Court has issued a notice to the Punjab government over an application filed by the CBSE Affiliated Schools Association, submitted that they are being forced to prescribe only NCERT and CISCE approved textbooks under the threat of withdrawal of recognition/NOC.Calling this decision 'totally illegal and high-handed', the. The Punjab and Haryana High Court has issued …

SC To Decide If Schools Affiliated To International Boards Come Under Right To Education Act
5 years, 7 months ago

SC To Decide If Schools Affiliated To International Boards Come Under Right To Education Act

Live Law  

The Supreme Court bench of Justices A M Khanwilkar and Dinesh Maheshwari has issued notice on a petition filed by an eleven year old child raising the issue whether a school affiliated to an International Board will come under the purview of Right To Education Act, 2009. The petitioner, Master Rajpurohit Ridham Devichand, was a student of Ajmera Global School, …

Extending RTE Act beyond class 8 to be considered after new govt formed: HC told
5 years, 10 months ago

Extending RTE Act beyond class 8 to be considered after new govt formed: HC told

India Today  

The Centre on Tuesday told the Delhi High Court that extension of the RTE Act beyond class 8 in schools is a "major policy issue" which could only be decided after the new government is formed post general elections. Petition filed by NGO seeking free education for EWS students upto class 12 under RTE The court had earlier sought replies …

Delhi HC Upholds Circular Asking Schools To Follow Textbooks Prescribed by SCERT/NCERT/CBSE [Read Judgment]
6 years ago

Delhi HC Upholds Circular Asking Schools To Follow Textbooks Prescribed by SCERT/NCERT/CBSE [Read Judgment]

Live Law  

The Delhi High Court has dismissed a challenge against stipulations in a circular issued Directorate of Education, Government of National Capital Territory of Delhi, to all the schools under it, to follow the textbooks prescribed by the SCERT, NCERT and CBSE. While examining the contentions raised by the Federation Of Educational Publishers In India, the court noted that the impugned …

Right to Education (RTE) social barriers lie at home: Study shows how parents affect the mindset of their children
6 years, 1 month ago

Right to Education (RTE) social barriers lie at home: Study shows how parents affect the mindset of their children

India Today  

A social exclusion report from the alumni of the Harvard Graduate School of Business is looking at social conditioning and psychological behavioural impact on children under Right to Education, 2009, with the help of a Delhi-based NGO. How parents' ideas affect children: Psychologist speaks Speaking about the power of education and sharing, Archana Sharma, a clinical psychologist at Delhi-based Sri …

Delhi government invites suggestions over RTE amendments in no-detention policy
6 years, 1 month ago

Delhi government invites suggestions over RTE amendments in no-detention policy

Hindustan Times  

The Delhi government has invited suggestions from students, teachers, parents and counsellors to help a committee constituted to look into the state’s right to education rules in the wake of the Centre’s decision to do away with the ‘no-detention’ policy. “The committee invites suggestions, comments, concerns and ideas regarding the future course of action in the light of the recent …

NCERT curriculum in all schools from next session, approves Tripura Cabinet
6 years, 3 months ago

NCERT curriculum in all schools from next session, approves Tripura Cabinet

India Today  

The Tripura Cabinet has given its nod to a proposal to introduce the NCERT curriculum in all state government and aided schools from the next academic session, beginning April 2019. The Department of Education has initiated the process to introduce the NCERT curriculum to replace the existing one prescribed by the State Council of Educational Research and Training, Education Minister …

Pakistan bans social studies books for showing Kashmir as part of India
6 years, 9 months ago

Pakistan bans social studies books for showing Kashmir as part of India

The Hindu  

Pakistan has banned social studies books in private schools in Punjab province for showing Kashmir as a part of India in the map of Pakistan printed on them. Notification issued PCTB Managing Director Abdul Qayyum issued a notification on Thursday banning the books on social studies in private schools across the Punjab province with immediate effect. “The books on social …

No publisher keen on supplying books, govt may turn to NCERT
6 years, 11 months ago

No publisher keen on supplying books, govt may turn to NCERT

Hindustan Times  

The Uttarakhand school education department is likely to request the National Council of Educational Research and Training to publish and supply books to the state, if no publisher comes forward for the job, officials said. “If no publisher participates, then we have an option to ask the NCERT to provide the books,” said Alok Shekhar Tiwari, director general, school education. …

NCERT books to detail child protection schemes
6 years, 11 months ago

NCERT books to detail child protection schemes

The Quint  

New Delhi, April 13 Child protection schemes like the POCSO Act and 24x7 children helpline numbers are now being published on the inside of the front cover of all the course books from class 6-12, according to Women and Child Development Ministry. Published by the National Council Of Educational Research And Training, the step is taken to equip the children …

Homeschooling in India: Enabling a Right to Education of Choice
7 years ago

Homeschooling in India: Enabling a Right to Education of Choice

The Quint  

That same year, public interest litigation was filed before the High Court of Delhi by 14-year-old Shreya Sahai contending that the RTE Act does not recognise any other mode of imparting education except the one through formal schooling, which is in violation of the fundamental rights of children. However, it also disclosed that the OBE Programme of the NIOS would …

Introduced NCERT Books in Madrasas after consulting board: Dinesh Sharma
7 years, 4 months ago

Introduced NCERT Books in Madrasas after consulting board: Dinesh Sharma

ABP News  

Lucknow, October 30 : The Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Dinesh Sharma on Monday said NCERT books are being introduced in madrasas across Uttar Pradesh in accordance to suggestions made by the state Madrasa Board. The Uttar Pradesh Madrasa board brought out a suggestion that along with their Urdu books they will also cover NCERT English books which are for different …

Schools aren’t commercial establishments: CBSE’s warning against selling books, uniforms
7 years, 11 months ago

Schools aren’t commercial establishments: CBSE’s warning against selling books, uniforms

India TV News  

The Central Board of Secondary Education has told schools affiliated to it that educational institutions are not commercial establishments and sale of books, uniforms and stationery by them is a violation of norms. An advisory has been issued following complaints from parents and stakeholders that schools are indulging in commercial activities by way of selling books and uniforms within the …

DC impact: Puducherry education department withdraws controversial book
8 years, 11 months ago

DC impact: Puducherry education department withdraws controversial book

Deccan Chronicle  

Puducherry: Puducherry education department has decided to withdraw the controversial book containing sexually explicit contents prescribed for primary school children. Deccan Chronicle had reported that the education department had provided books containing sexually explicit contents to primary schools under Sarva Siksha Abhiyan Scheme which released '1,600 to set up reading corner in schools. Five books worth of Rs 400 have …

CBSE books to be made available online for free
9 years, 3 months ago

CBSE books to be made available online for free

India TV News  

New Delhi: All CBSE books and learning material will be made available online for free as part of the Centre's good governance efforts, HRD Minister Smriti Irani said here today. We are similarly going to make CBSE books available online along with additional learning material and videos as part of our good governance efforts," Irani said at the inauguration of …

‘Implement RTE now, plug loopholes in due course'
12 years, 10 months ago

‘Implement RTE now, plug loopholes in due course'

The Hindu  

Even as private unaided school managements are putting up stiff resistance against the implementation of the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009 from this academic year, a section of thinkers have asserted it should be implemented this year. Extend to Class 10 Pointing out the basic problems in the RTE Act, he said: “The RTE Act …

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