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June 2026 is a crowded month for anyone trying to become a school teacher in India: several Teacher Eligibility Test windows and government recruitment drives close within days of each other. Here is a calendar-first guide to what is open, what is closing, and how to avoid the mistakes that cost candidates a whole cycle.
Nearly 6.69 lakh students sat CBSE's first-ever Class 10 second board exam, and the result is expected in the first week of June. For school exam coordinators, the next few days are about reconciling best-of-two scores, handling DigiLocker marksheets, and steering compartment candidates — here is the operational checklist.
With India crossing 100 million weekly AI users and tutoring apps building chatbots into every lesson, your child almost certainly studies with AI already. Here is how to tell when it helps, when it quietly harms, and how to set rules that build judgment instead of dependence.
India's edtech investment has crashed to an eight-year low even as AI moves to the centre of how students learn. For principals and trustees, the contradiction is the strategy: this is the moment to buy smart, partner carefully, and avoid the mistakes of the last boom.
CISCE opens ICSE improvement exam registration on May 30 with a June 5 deadline, a new three-subject cap and a non-refundable Rs 500-per-paper fee. The exam runs after that and the revised marks replace the originals. Here is the decision framework for a Class 10 family — when to sit it, which subjects to choose, and the three places parents typically get this wrong.
CBSE's 2026-27 secondary curriculum makes Art Education compulsory for Classes 9 and 10 with textbooks and school-based internal assessment. Here is the working brief for principals and academic coordinators on timetable, teacher load, evidence files and what to put on the calendar before Term 1.
Tamil Nadu reopens schools on June 1 for the 2026-27 session, but Classes 1 to 3 begin only on June 4 after a three-day mandatory orientation for primary teachers on nine new activity-based textbooks. Here is the working week a TN parent of a six-, seven- or eight-year-old actually has, and what to do at home before day one.
Vaishali DM Varsha Singh has ordered all schools and anganwadi centres up to Class 8 closed May 25 to 31; Saran has shut the same band through May 27. With BSEB summer vacation scheduled June 1 to 20, Bihar families face four near-continuous closure weeks. Here is the seven-day brief.
NEP 2020's vocational mandate for Classes 6 to 8 is now operational through NCERT's Kaushal Bodh activity books, and 2026-27 is the first session where every CBSE middle-school teacher is expected to plan around three projects, 110 hours, and three work domains. A teacher's brief on the timetable swap, the project sequence, and what to ask for before term begins.
NCERT's overhaul of the Class 9 syllabus for 2026-27 has landed across Maths, Science, English and Sanskrit, but the Social Science textbook is still in development as Karnataka reopens May 29 and most CBSE schools restart in early June. For Class 9 parents stuck between an old book at home and a new syllabus on the wall, here is the practical three-week bridge plan.
CBSE has published the full Computational Thinking and Artificial Intelligence curriculum for Classes 3 to 8 for the 2026-27 session, along with teacher handbooks for Classes 3, 6 and 8 and a DLD training protocol issued April 9. With most CBSE schools reopening in the next four weeks, here is what subject teachers and academic coordinators should put on the prep calendar.
In a ruling delivered May 25, the Delhi High Court held that private unaided schools do not need prior Directorate of Education approval to hike fees at the start of an academic session, quashing more than a hundred DoE rejection orders. With most Delhi schools already three weeks into 2026-27 billing, the next 30 days decide whether families end up overpaying. Here is the parent's working brief.
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