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The National Council of Educational Research and Training, an institution long associated with school textbooks and curriculum design, may soon step into a different institutional role. According to sources in the Ministry of Education, NCERT is likely to be granted deemed-to-be-university status by the end of January, ANI reports.The groundwork for the decision has been…
Severe staff shortages persist at NCERT, NCTE and NIOS, ministry tells parliament NEW DELHI: More than half the sanctioned posts at the National Council of Educational Research and Training remain vacant, according to data shared in Parliament. The figures show that the body carried out no recruitment for two consecutive years.The information was given by…
NEW DELHI: Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Saturday backed NCERT’s alleged move to drop the word “Great” from the names of Mughal emperor Akbar and Mysore ruler Tipu Sultan in school history textbooks. Speaking at an event in Bongaigaon, he said, “Tipu-Ipu ko maro ekdum. Jahan bhejna hai, udhar hi bhej do. Samundar…
NEW DELHI: The NCERT has rolled out special classroom modules on ‘swadeshi’, tracing its roots from 1905 anti-partition agitation in Bengal to PM Narendra Modi’s call for a self-reliant India.The publications, ‘Swadeshi: Vocal for Local’ (for middle stage) and ‘Swadeshi: For a Self-Reliant India’ (for secondary stage), revisits the historic movement that urged Indians to…
