Amid Covid Disruption, NCERT to cut syllabus to reduce workload

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• Dec 28, 2021 | Deleted

Digital Desk: The National Council for Educational Research and Training has decided to reduce the workload for the students by cutting down the syllabus for the session 2022-23 amid ongoing covid disruption in the country.

Academic sessions in schools have been affected many times in the last two years because of Covid-19, with continuous school closure and many students' unavailability of online resources.

 "When a syllabus reduction exercise is undertaken, we mostly look at doing away with repetitive topics and topics that have been explained in a lengthier format than they are actually meant to be," said a source at NCERT.  

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Following the National Education Policy, the council is already working on revamping the curriculum as a part of the National Curriculum Framework. 

The NCF gives a broad outline for the text and course material to be taught in private and public schools. Since the NCF is a larger exercise and will take some time to be finalised, sources in the NCERT said experts are working on reducing the load for the next year in the interim. 

On 15 December, NCERT Director In-charge Sridhar Srivastava wrote to all the department heads to develop a report on syllabus reduction. The department heads were expected to submit their report by Tuesday, suggesting what all can be excluded from the syllabus for the upcoming academic session. 

Meanwhile, the books based on the NCF are expected to be introduced from the academic session 2023-24. 

While Srivastava refused to comment on the kind of deductions in the syllabus, sources said the experts are looking at eliminating topics that have been repeated either in the same class or at different levels.