Edcamps: New Age Professional Development for Teachers in India

Edcamps, an educator driven initiative are informal, participatory, one day event organized by educators or facilitators for themselves to discuss about their needs and demands.... Read More

Learning Matters—How a Powerful Tool to Modify Education in Rural Areas Evolved

Saras has an overall 18 years of experience in various child education programmes, managing digital contents and also teaching in the US. She has two MS degrees from Purdue University in Child Development and Special Education. After returning back to India she contacted her friend Gowri who was wor... Read More

CBSE Practical’s will not be held in the Home-centers from year 2020

The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) is considering stopping practical examinations at the home –centers. The practical exams will be conducted at the external centers like theory exams instead. The orders in this regard would take effect from the 2020 board exams.... Read More

Survey Highlights lapses in Security Standards in Bangalore Schools

A startling gap in the security of children in the schools in Bangalore has been highlighted by the survey conducted by epidemiology department in conjunction with NIMHANS and the underwriters laboratories. Only 22 percent of the surveyed schools had emergency exits, 94 % had fire extinguishers and ... Read More

CBSE expresses reservations on the draft NEP’s recommendation for 24 subject multiple board exam

CBSE has voiced its concern over the recommendations made in the draft national education policy rooting for multiple board exams and inclusion of 24 subjects for the board exams. The NEP which is to come into effect since 2020 for next 20 years have made several provisions that have raised question... Read More

Extension of deadline for application of affiliation of schools announced by CBSE

In the wake of Corona Virus lockdown, the Central Board of Secondary Education hasextended the deadline for applying to get CBSE affiliation for aspiring schools. The board has released a notification to this effect.... Read More

Delhi Directorate of Education Website will have approvals for fee hike uploaded

Delhi government has posited to the High Court of the state that all previous orders that enabled private schools to hike fees will be uploaded on the website of the state’s directorate of education. it was also stated that the pertinent approvals will be updated continually.... Read More

Come 2021, Schools set to reopen for class 10 and 12 in Karnataka

Department of Primary and Secondary Education, Karnataka has signaled the reopening of the PU colleges after a 9 month hiatus. The students of class 10 and 12 will be attending physical classes starting from January 1.... Read More

Teacher Training for NEP objectives--CBSE and AICTE’s joint Innovation Ambassador Programme

The CBSE has entered into a collaboration with the All India Council for Technical Education by signing an MoU. The collaboration is for teacher training and skill enhancement. Notably, the AICTE is currently organizing several programs for skill enhancement of the faculty and the students of the in... Read More

CBSE and Meta Collaborate to Train Students and Teachers in AR and Digital Well-being

As part of their partnership with the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), Meta, formerly known as Facebook, will train over 10 million students and 1 million teachers in India. The training will be in digital safety, Augmented Reality (AR), and online well-being. The high school curriculum ... Read More

Expansion of Design Thinking and Innovation Courses in Schools

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Metaverse in the Indian Education Sector

Meta (formerly Facebook) has announced its plan to expand partnership with the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), India’s largest school board. This partnership includes training in augmented reality (AR) to millions of students and about a million teachers over the coming three years. As ... Read More

APAAR: Student Identification with "One Nation, One ID"

In a move towards educational innovation and streamlined identification, the government is set to launch APAAR... Read More

Karnataka's Visionary Leap: the Future-Focused State Education Policy

Karnataka takes a bold stride into the future with the unveiling of its forward-looking State Education Policy. Sukhdev Thorat, the former (University Grands Commission (UGC) Chairman and the current State Education Policy (SEP) Chairman has divulged plans for this comprehensive education policy. Cr... Read More

NCERT Introduces Interactive Textbooks for Class III

The National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) unveiled the first set of school textbooks, including English, Hindi, and Urdu, for Class III, integrating cross-cutting themes such as inclusion, multilingualism, and gender equality.... Read More

Use of Robots in School Education

The word ‘Robotics’ can be defined in many ways, with the basic definition being a branch of engineering that involves designing, constructing, operating, and using of robots in doing work traditionally done by humans. A robot is an automatically operated machine, capable of sensing the environment,... Read More

Handbooks for teachers and students released by CBSE

The board has directed the schools to disseminate the information regarding the issuance of the handbooks to all teachers and students. The school management has also been directed, through the notification, to download the handbooks and hold discussions on them.... Read More

CISCE Notice Regarding Enrolment to NCERT SWAYAM courses for Classes 11, 12

The Ministry of Education of the Government of India had launched a platform on July 9, 2017, named SWAYAM (Study Webs of Active Learning for Young Aspiring Minds), offering Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). On this platform, the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) has p... Read More