UP Board to start new courses, invites experts’ suggestions
ALLAHABAD: The UP Board is planning to introduce new subjects and courses to ensure allround development of students and to polish their talent.
The step is similar to the one taken by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) that introduced optional courses in dynamics of retailing, information technology, financial market, tourism, beauty and wellness, food production, banking and insurance, marketing, sales and healthcare services.
Initially, the UP Board invited suggestions from the public.
However, when the Board received no response, it placed the proposal before a panel of experts for the recommendations.
Secretary, UP Board, Neena Srivastava said the Board was of the opinion that to help its students face the challenges of practical life there was a need to introduce subjects and courses that could prove beneficial to them.
“We have urged experts to give suggestions. After going through the suggestions and taking feedback from subject experts, we will put a proposal before the Board members,” she said.
UP Board is one of the largest examination bodies of the world and has over 1.25 crore students from class 9 to class 12 studying in over 25,000 schools affiliated to it.
These include 2,152 government schools, 4,535 government-aided secondary schools and 19,209 unaided institutions.
The UP Board recently included GST as a separate topic of study in syllabus of social science for class 10 students as part of the updated syllabus released on May 5.
From 2017-18 academic session, the Board has also introduced lessons in banking from Class 9 in the amended curriculum of social science.
The amended curriculum has also effected changes in other subjects like science, Hindi, home science, social and moral science, sports and physical education and has been made available on the Board’s official website (www.upmsp.edu.in).
FROM 201718 ACADEMIC SESSION, THE BOARD HAS ALSO INTRODUCED LESSONS IN BANKING FROM CLASS 9 IN THE AMENDED CURRICULUM OF SOCIAL SCIENCE.