Updating textbooks and rationalising syllabi is a commonplace practice across the world, necessitated by the shifting needs of the education system, society and science. The government body argued that the syllabi was reduced by around a third to give students relief in a pandemic-hit academic session, and that the exercise was conducted by a panel of experts. But some of …
The Central Board of Secondary Education has removed chapters dealing with the rise of Islamic empires in Afro-Asian territories, chronicles of Mughal courts, the Cold War and the industrial revolution from the History and Political Science syllabus of classes 11 and 12, a section of teachers has said. One of the chapters missing from the Class 11 History syllabus, titled …
In view of the “burden” on students amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, the Central Board of Secondary Education has selectively removed portions from the textbooks of Classes 9 to 12, effecting a 30 per cent reduction in as many as 190 subjects for the academic year 2020-21. Omitting historical facts or banning literature sets us on a dangerous path that cannot …
