NCERT Promotes Private Coaching and Dummy Schools: Academics Criticise Reduced School Syllabus
Basant Kumar Mohanty | 24 March 2024 | The Telegraph
The NCERT, a wing of the education ministry, has been accused of promoting private coaching and “dummy schools” through its actions at a time when the government’s stated policy is to curb the coaching industry. The National Council of Educational Research and Training, whose textbooks are used by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) and 15 state school boards, has for the third straight year continued with its reduced, Covid-time syllabus for Classes IX to XII.
This is forcing students to take up private coaching since the reduced school syllabus is inadequate to prepare them for competitive exams like the NEET, JEE and the CUET, two students, a parent and multiple academics told The Telegraph. The NCERT move, academics said, goes against the stand taken against private coaching by the National Education Policy 2020.