The NCERT curriculum will now include a chapter on the National War Memorial called “A Homage to our Brave Soldiers” for students in class 7. The Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Defence are working together on this effort. According to a Press statement from the ministry, the initiative’s goal is to instill in schoolchildren the … Read more
The National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) has released a new draft module for school staff, highlighting the challenges faced by transgender students. The new module also recommends measures to achieve a more inclusive environment at schools. Some of the suggestions include regular workshops, outreach programmes, and gender-neutral school uniforms. Titled “Integrating Transgender … Read more
New Delhi: The NCERT will work towards bringing a balanced perspective of all genders in the new National Curriculum Framework (NCF) and in its textbooks, according to a parliamentary committee. The panel had earlier recommended that to address the under-representation of women and girls in school textbooks or them being depicted only in traditional roles, … Read more
Three Global academic non-profits — Educational Testing Services (ETS), American Institutes for Research (AIR), and the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) —have expressed curiosity in serving to arrange India’s first nationwide school-level examination and evaluation regulator, based on sources. While ETS is internationally recognized for conducting TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language) … Read more