The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has decided to withdraw 7 academic electives and 34 vocational courses from class XII curriculum, with effect from the academic year 2017-18. Low enrolment has been cited as ...

CBSE has remodelled the assessment scheme of class X board examination for schools offering vocational subject as compulsory subject under the National Skills Qualifications Framework (NSQF). The new assessment scheme will come into effect from ...

As the board exams draw near, CBSE has launched a mobile app, Exam Locator to help students locate their examination centre and its geo-location based on their roll number. “This mobile application has been developed ...

The Kerala government has decided to introduce Free and Open Source software (FOSS) in schools. Unlike proprietary software which involves copyright restrictions, FOSS is freely licensed and can therefore be used, distributed and changed as ...

In another attempt to increase the level of education in the country, CBSE has decided to periodically review the textbooks of private publishers that CBSE-affiliated schools prescribe. The reviews will be to ensure that the ...

The central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has released a circular, addressed to heads of all CBSE affiliated schools, stating that NCERT textbooks will be available in all such schools,before the commencement of academic session ...

Mindful of the physical burden students have to bear each day in carrying heavy school bags, the Union HRD Minister, Prakash Javadekar declared that the ministry is working on new norms for CBSE schools to ...

It has been proposed to include learning outcomes in the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education (RTE) Act, 2009. The NCERT had prepared a draft on the learning outcomes for school children and ...

The Union Human Resource Development (HRD) Ministry on Friday, 10th February, 2017, announced that with effect from 2018, admission to all engineering and architecture colleges will be made through a single entrance examination, on the ...

Central Board of Secondary Education’s decision to scrap out its international curriculum, CBSE-i, from the coming academic year has brought about severe dissatisfaction among the parents. Introduced as a pilot project in 2010-11, the CBSE-i ...