19 Member Committee Formed under Shri MC Pant to Revise NCERT Textbooks

NCERT has established a 19-member National Syllabus and Teaching Learning Material Committee (NSTC), chaired by NIEPA chancellor MC Pant, to revise textbooks for classes 3 to 12. Members include Sudha Murthy, Shankar Mahadevan, Sanjeev Sanyal, and others. The committee aims ..

Month: Current Affairs - August, 2023

Category: Awards, Honours & Persons in News

Performance Assessment Review and Analysis of Knowledge for Holistic Development (PARAKH)

The Government of India recently launched PARAKH to assess the performance of secondary and higher secondary students. Different states in the country are following different assessment procedures to evaluate their students. Because of the variations, students are facing difficulties during ..

Month: Current Affairs - January, 2023

Category: Government Schemes Current Affairs

NCERT’s guidelines for early identification of mental health problems in students

Recently, the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) issued the guidelines for “Early identification and intervention for mental health problems in school going children and adolescents”. Key facts The guidelines were released after a nationwide survey found that ..

Month: Current affairs - September, 2022

Category: India Nation & States Current Affairs

National Achievement Survey 2021 report

The National Achievement Survey 2021 report was released by the Union Ministry of Education. What is National Achievement Survey? National Achievement Survey (NAS) is a national-level assessment survey conducted to evaluate the progress and learning achievement of school students. It ..

Month: Current Affairs - May, 2022

Category: Reports & Indexes Current Affairs

Common University Entrance Test

The Common University Entrance Test (CUET) or the Central University Common Entrance Test (CUCET) is an entrance exam that is computerized and is taken for admission to 45 central universities across the country. Under this exam, the Class 12 marks ..

Month: Current Affairs - March, 2022

Category: India Nation & States Current Affairs

Education Ministry survey on Learning Loss

The Ministry of Education conducted a survey to learn about the education losses during COVID times. The survey was conducted in November 2021. Three districts of Andhra Pradesh and 16 districts of Tamil Nadu couldn’t participate because of heavy rains. ..

Month: Current Affairs - January, 2022

Category: Reports & Indexes Current Affairs