New Delhi :
The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) will offer skill courses as an additional sixth subject for classes 6 to 11 from 2020-21 academic session, officials said on Tuesday. “At the secondary level, a skill subject may be offered as an additional subject along with the existing five compulsory subjects.
The board has decided to offer students thflexibility of making a vocational choice of a short duration module of 12 hours at a stage in their early academic career, either at class 6, 7 or 8,” Biswajit Saha, CBSE’s Director Training and Skill Education, said. “In this way, they will be able to spend a relevant time period pursuing this choice as per the convenience of school, while benefitting from access to courses that are broader based,” he said.
Saha said that this would give students the necessary orientation early on so that they are able to make a choice at a later stage…
