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The committee will suggest well-defined alternative objective criteria for assessment of the Regular and Ex-Regular examines of Annual H.S. Examination, 2021 and submit its report within 10 days.  

The Ministry of Education had launched a platform for offering Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), popularly known as SWAYAM in July 2017.

The Plus Two exam conducted by the Council of Higher Secondary Education (CHSE) every year was cancelled by the State Government on Friday keeping in view the safety of students amid the Covid-19 pandemic.

The committee, which comprises Joint Secretary Education, Vipin Kumar, Commissioners of the Kendriya and Navodaya Vidyalayas, and representatives from the CBSE, and UGC among other, will have to submit its report in 10 days.

As per a statement issued by NIOS, the public examinations in theory and practical of Sr. Secondary Courses scheduled in June 2021 are hereby cancelled.

"Under NEP 2020, we promised to introduce coding and data science in schools. Today, I'm happy to see CBSE fulfilling the promise right in the session of 2021 itself. CBSE is empowering India's future generations with new-age skills."

New Delhi: In a major development, the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) on Friday informed that it will be issuing an ‘instruction module’ to all schools by next week to deter students from cheating. The module was being worked on for quite some time and it has reached its final form on Friday, the […]

New Delhi: The Union Cabinet, chaired by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has approved the Revised Cost of Estimates (RCE) for incurring an expenditure of Rs.3639.32 crore for the 13 new Central Universities for recurring cost and creation of necessary infrastructure for completion of the campuses. The work will be completed within a period of […]

New Delhi: Union HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar today rubbished the reports of recommendation making Hindi language compulsory until Class 8 in all the schools across the country. Javadekar informed that there’s no provision of making any language compulsory in National Education Policy draft while clarifying that the news in the media is wrong. The HRD […]

New Delhi: The University Grants Commission (UGC) has invited online applications from all eligible Higher Educational Institutions (HEls) for offering Courses/Programmes in Online mode as per UGC (Online Courses or Programmes) Regulations, 2018. As per sources, the proposals have been invited from HEIs for recognition of courses/programmes to be offered in online mode and this […]

New Delhi: In a major development, Union Human Resource Development Minister Prakash Javadekar today announced the approval an increase of 5000 seats in Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya (JNV) for the Academic Year 2019-20.  At present the number of seats in JNVs, residential schools for talented rural children, are 46600. The addition of 5000 seats will mean […]

New Delhi: The University Grants Commission (UGC) has released the list of 24 fake Universities on its website www.ugc.ac.in. In addition, the Commission also issued public notice against the unrecognized status of Indian Institute of Planning and Management (IIPM), New Delhi and illegal status of Bio-Chemic Education Grant Commission, Nadia, West Bengal. Bhartiya Shiksha Parishad, […]

Odisha government on Friday announced the cancellation of the Plus II examinations in the State in view of the uncertain situation created by the second wave of Covid pandemic.

Agartala: In a major development, the Tripura Cabinet has given its nod to a proposal to introduce the NCERT curriculum in all state government and aided schools from the next academic session, beginning April 2019. As per reports, the Department of Education has initiated the process to introduce the NCERT curriculum to replace the existing […]

This year, the Central Board Of Secondary Education (CBSE) decided to conduct the examination of skill subjects in latter half of February 2019, while efforts were made to declare the Date Sheet at the earliest and keeping in mind that the students will get sufficient time between the examination of important subjects the Date Sheet […]