Education policy News

The National Council of Educational Research and Training has made a big announcement regarding the board exam. A new curriculum framework has been launched for school education regarding board exams. In which it was told that from the next year i.e. 2024, the board exams will be conducted twice a year.

This new education policy aims at making the curriculum smooth and simple.

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Neither detentions nor the no-detention policy address the quality of learning that children receive in schools. That is why we are failing our children.

A plea has been moved in the Delhi High Court challenging the AAP government's education policy under which vocational subjects would replace languages like Sanskrit as the sixth compulsory subject at the secondary level.

The minister said suggestions on the draft education policy are welcome and a deadline for comments on the draft was extended till September 15 this year.

Union HRD minister Prakash Javadekar on Tuesday said that views of all ideological sections are needed for the formulation of a New Education Policy (NEP) even as he emphasised on encouraging research and innovation for sustainable development.

Limiting 'no detention policy' till class V, an education commission to identify new areas of knowledge, raising investment in education sector to at least 6 per cent of GDP and encouraging top foreign varsities to come to India are among the highlights of a draft New Education Policy (NEP) put forth by HRD ministry in public domain.

Her reaction comes in the wake of a statement given by ex-Cabinet Secretary T.S.R. Subramanium who said he will make the new policy public if the government did not do so.

Leading government's charge in Parliament over JNU row and suicide of Dalit student Rohith Vemula, HRD Minister Smriti Irani slammed the Congress over its education policy. 

Human Resource Development Minister Smriti Irani on Friday said the new education policy would have views from the people and their voices will be articulated in the new policy.

Union Human Resource Development Minister has reaffirmed India's commitment to the ideals of UNESCO.

Gujarat government here on Wednesday organised a consultation seminar on the new education policy of the country, which is being drafted by Union HRD Ministry after 29 years, at a city-based educational institute wherein suggestions of academicians were taken.

The government has invited suggestions from CBSE students of Classes VI to XII on the proposed national education policy before unveiling its first draft in December.

Efforts are underway to prepare the draft of a new education policy by December with involvement of people at the district level, Union HRD Minister Smriti Irani said on Saturday.