[ad_1] “To uphold our exceptional standards, we must ensure our students and teachers have the highest quality materials available — materials that focus on historical facts and are free from inaccuracies or ideological rhetoric,” Education Commissioner Manny Diaz Jr. said in a statement Tuesday. The textbook adoption process for socialContinue Reading
[ad_1] Zaffer Iqbal Uri, May 6 (GNS): Most of the students enrolled across various schools in Uri in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district are suffering for the want of text-books for over a month now, which has expectedly affected the education scenario in the frontier town. A delegation of parents toldContinue Reading
[ad_1] SRINAGAR: School Education Department is likely to issue two types of textbooks for school students from this academic year. Director of School Education Kashmir (DSEK),Tassaduq Hussain Mir has said, “We will be issuing two types of textbooks for school students in terms of paper quality.” Mir said, “One ofContinue Reading
[ad_1] Srinagar, Apr 08: School Education Department is likely to issue two types of textbooks for school students from this academic year. According to the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO), Director of School Education Kashmir (DSEK), Tassaduq Hussain Mir has said, “We will be issuing two types of textbooks forContinue Reading
[ad_1] Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Friday strongly condemned the dropping of certain chapters and portions from NCERT class 12 textbooks and alleged that “complete saffronisation” of academic books was the objective behind the move. Historical facts cannot be denied by just cutting out portions that are inconvenientContinue Reading
[ad_1] New Delhi: The recent changes in textbooks have not been made to please or offend anyone, rather these are purely based on the recommendations made by experts, said NCERT Director Dinesh Prasad Saklani. In a detailed conversation with IANS, Saklani said that the NCERT is now going to introduceContinue Reading
[ad_1] Mumbai: Amid a row over the removal of certain references in NCERT’s new class 12 textbooks, BJP’s Maharashtra chief Chandrashekhar Bawankule on Wednesday said some people had deliberately written “negative content” in history textbooks and there was a need to drop it. He also said that although he wasContinue Reading
[ad_1] New Delhi: The Congress on Wednesday hit out at the government over some texts missing from NCERT’s new class 12 textbooks, including Mahatma Gandhi’s pursuit of Hindu-Muslim unity irking the right-wing and the ban on the RSS for some time, and called it “whitewashing with a vengeance”. The NCERT,Continue Reading
[ad_1] SRINAGAR: The National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) has announced significant revisions to the 12th class History book, with the removal of chapters related to the Mughal Empire. The changes will be applicable to all NCERT-affiliated schools across the country, and are expected to impact the wayContinue Reading
[ad_1] Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh government schools will adopt from this academic session the NCERT’s new class 12 history textbooks in which portions about Mughal courts have been removed. “We teach our students using NCERT books…whatever is there in the revised edition will be followed,” Deputy Chief Minister Brajesh Pathak said.Continue Reading