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The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) stated on Saturday that beginning in January 9 of this year, the board will offer counselling services to students in classes 10 and 12. This will be accomplished with the aid of podcasts, tele-counselling, and IVRS. Since students would be taking the offline board exams again after a two-year break, CBSE took this decision with that in mind. “For the ease and familiarization of the students the board had already made available the sample question papers, Exam pattern, marks distribution on the website. However, to provide psychological support and solutions to the students, the counselling facility which used to start in February earlier will now begin in January this year,” the official release read. IVRS will be used as the initial counselling technique. For students and parents, CBSE offers free IVRS service around-the-clock at Board’s toll-free number 1800-11-8004. Through this, Hindi and English information and recommendations about stress-free exam preparation, time and stress management, frequently asked questions (FAQs), COVID prevention, key contact data of CBSE offices, etc., may be accessed from anywhere in the nation. The Board will offer counselling services via voluntary tele-counselling services, just as IVRS. By calling 1800-11-8004, the Board is offering this free service from 9:30 am to 5:30 pm, from Monday to Saturday. This year, 84 principals and counsellors from India and other nations are offering this service. Of these, 11 are in Nepal, Japan, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman, and Singapore, while 73 of the principals and counsellors are from India. The Board will also make bilingual podcasts on these same topics available on the official CBSE website, cbse.gov.in, in addition to the aforementioned. The Board said in a letter that it has posted many important messages on social media over the years and has also used YouTube, Facebook and Instagram platforms to actively communicate with the students. Audio-visual content about youth experiences, aggression, depression, internet addiction disorder, exam stress, one can also view and listen to multimedia content on a variety of subjects, such as particular learning difficulties, substance use disorders, and life skills to deal with them.

The Union Health Minister, Mansukh Mandaviya, urged everyone to develop an education system modelled on India on Thursday. While addressing with the heads of 150 private medical schools around the country, he remarked, “Let us create the India model of medical education that defines paradigm of accessible, affordable, credible and quality education.” The minister spent around three hours listening to the comments, recommendations, insights, and questions from representatives of these medical institutions, the health ministry said in a statement. Representatives discussed and offered proposals for NEET PG, NeXT, admissions, faculty retirement age, journal articles, bonds for rural posting, district residency programme, etc. during the interaction. We can only create an ecosystem with “Samvaad” where the government and other stakeholders in medical education advance in a setting of consent and consultation. One of the key pillars in this is a robust medical education sector, he noted. Mandaviya urged the private medical institutions to move forward in a spirit of partnership in order to jointly develop a robust and energising medical education industry in the country. Let’s develop the “India Model” of medical education, he remarked, which establishes a standard for easily accessible, relatively affordable, reliable, and high-quality medical education. He made mention of the recent “Heal in India” and “Heal by India” initiatives, saying that “India envisions to lead in the global arena on the strength of its medical sector not only to meet the domestic requirements but also meet the global demand of highly skilled and trained manpower, and quality medical and healthcare and wellness services.” The minister expressed concern about medical institutions that had become “merely businesses to the exclusion of “sewa bhaav” deeply embedded in the Indian ethos,” according to the official statement.

The Ministry of Education said on Tuesday that the annual Pariksha Pe Charcha event, during which Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaks with students about how to manage exam stress, will take place on January 27 at Delhi’s Talkatora Stadium. The event was first held in 2018, and this will be its sixth edition. Due to the pandemic, Pariksha Pe Charcha was conducted online in a town hall format in 2021. A select number of students, teachers, and parents get to interact with the PM live in addition to it being streamed live through television and social media platforms. They are selected via an online creative writing competition, the topics of which are shared to schools around the nation. This time, “know your freedom fighters,” “our culture is our pride,” “my startup dream,” “education for skilling,” and “future educational challenges” have been picked as the themes. In comparison to PPC-2022, which had around 15.7 lakh participants, PPC-2023 has about 38.80 lakh participants (students- 31.24 lakh, teachers – 5.60 lakh, parents – 1.95 lakh). Parents from 50 nations, teachers from 51 countries, and students from over 150 countries have enrolled for PPC-2023, according to a statement from the ministry.