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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...

January 21, 2023

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”....

September 15, 2022

Performance Grading Index for Districts (PGI-D)

On June 27, 2022, Department of School Education and Literacy (DoSE&L) of Ministry of Education (MoE) released the “Performance Grading Index for Districts (PGI-D)” report for the year...

June 28, 2022

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...

January 21, 2022

School education scheme extended for 5 years

Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs has approved the continuation of ‘Samagra Shiksha Scheme’ for school education for further five years. Key Points As per the education minister, Dharmendra...

August 5, 2021

Delhi School Bag Policy

The Delhi Government recently issued guidelines to reduce the weight of school bags of students in the National Capital Region under its Delhi School Bag Policy. What are...

January 6, 2021

Kerala: First State to become Digital in Public Education

The State of Kerala is the first state in the country to make public education completely digital. The state Government has achieved it at a cost of Rs...

October 12, 2020

Shagun

The Ministry of Human Resource Development launched a web portal Shagun which is an integrated junction of various education portals. In the portal websites of 1,200 Kendriya Vidyalayas,...

August 31, 2019

Draft National Education Policy on School Education

The broad recommendations related to school education in the draft National Education Policy is outlined below: Early childhood care and education Attributing a major part of learning crisis...

June 10, 2019

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