Bhubaneswar: Nearly a month after school education department stumbled upon 1,678 errors in textbooks for classes 1 to VIII, the crime branch on Tuesday took into custody Manoj Kumar Padhy (57), former director of Teacher Education & State Council of Educational Research and Training (TE & SCERT), the first such arrest in the case that…
Bhubaneswar: The crime branch on Monday formally took over investigation into the alleged irregularities in the preparation, approval, processing and publication of school textbooks for classes I to VIII.Chief minister Mohan Charan Majhi had on Saturday ordered a crime branch investigation into the lapses that led to a large number of errors in the school…
Chief minister Mohan Charan Majhi Bhubaneswar: Days after chief minister Mohan Charan Majhi told TOI that the massive textbook errors could be the result of a “conspiracy” and warned that those responsible would be made to bear the cost of reprinting them if a probe showed culpability, the CM on Saturday ordered a crime branch…
Panaji: The State Council of Educational Research and Training (SCERT) will constitute a review committee to examine all National Education Policy (NEP)-aligned textbooks from Classes I to VIII for content refinements, typographical errors and continuity across grades.SCERT director Meghana Shetgaonkar said the decision was taken two months ago by the council’s steering committee after the…
Chennai: A new STEM lab, with emphasis on electrical and electronic circuits; additional do-it-yourself experiments for students and story modules to teach science and math concepts are among the upcoming latest additions to the city’s State Resource Centre (SRC) for school students.Launched in Jan this year at the DPI campus, the facility — which is…
PUNE: After being postponed due to the teachers’ involvement in census-related work, the training programme for implementation of Maharashtra’s new school curriculum has been rescheduled with the authorities aiming to complete it by July 10. After being postponed due to teachers’ involvement in census-related work, training programme for implementation of Maharashtra’s new school curriculum has…
Gauree.Malkarnekar@timesofindia.comPanaji: From this academic year 2026-27, textbooks aligned with the National Education Policy (NEP) are now in force in all classes from I to VIII, as per the revised books provided by the NCERT. Local contextualisation has been carried out for the social science subject, known as ‘the world around us’ in primary classes.Director of…
Prayagraj: Music and art are being integrated into the curriculum from the primary grades in Uttar Pradesh’s basic education schools, with Class 1 students in state council-run schools set to receive a dedicated art textbook for the first time.Anil Kumar, Basic Shiksha Adhikari, Prayagraj, said that from the new academic session beginning in June, the…
TOI Found That Every Page Of The Books, To Be Used By Students From This Academic Year, Had Illustrations And An Activity Chennai: A primary school student learning mathematics under the state board will no longer be introduced to numbers in the conventional sense, where the teacher jots them down on the black board and…
