Tag: School Syllabus

Bhubaneswar: Expressing concerns over the unchanged syllabus for students under the Board of Secondary Education (BSE) since 2009, educationists have said that it may reduce the quality of education. Educationists opine that due to the unchanged syllabus, students are unaware of the new developments in various fields. Similarly, the move has also forced the examiners […]

Bhubaneswar: School children in Odisha will soon get to know how legendary leader and former chief minister Biju Patnaik had once rescued Prime Minister of Indonesia and his role in the freedom struggle. The state government has decided to include the life story of Biju Patnaik in their text books. State school and mass education minister […]

New Delhi: The National Council of Educational Research Training (NCERT) is all set to bring reforms in its syllabus, teaching methods and writing of the textbooks. The National Curriculum Framework (NCF), a body of NCERT, is responsible to bring in the changes and the same was done 15 years back in 2005. Hrushikesh Senapaty, director […]

(Update): The Odisha government on August 26 made an announcement to reduce the syllabus for Class 1 to 12 students by 30 per cent for the 2020-21 academic session. Read The Story: Odisha School Syllabus For Class 1-12 Slashed By 30% For 2020-21 Bhubaneswar: With uncertainty looming large over the resumption of classes in schools […]

Bhubaneswar: Delay in rationalisation of Odisha school syllabus for the new academic session that has been hit by COVID pandemic this year, has raised serious questions in the minds of educationists. The delay, notwithstanding the declaration of course curriculum by national education boards, has also triggered skepticism among students. While CBSE has shortened the school […]

Bhubaneswar: Odisha government is judiciously working on reducing school syllabus of students for the academic year 2020-21 amid the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, informed the State School and Mass Education Minister, Samir Ranjan Dash on Sunday. The proposals submitted by expert committees including higher secondary committee are now being scrutinised by the Principal Secretary of the […]

Bhubaneswar: Though Odisha government followed the CBSE and ICSE model and slashed the syllabus of Class 1 to 12 students for 2020-21 academic session by 30 per cent, experts believe that the move would hardly help students as most of the curriculum trimmed in the process were already taught. Similarly, educationists say that the move […]

Bhubaneswar: Students in schools will learn and sing ‘Bande Utkal Janani’ as the Odisha government has decided to include the State anthem in the syllabus. A notification has been issued in this regard after Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik passed an order on the same. In a tweet, the Information and Public Relation (I&PR) Department informed […]