New Delhi: Complying with the recommendations of National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, the CBSE has introduced coding and data science as skill subjects in the schools.
Sharing the information, Union Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank tweeted: “Under NEP 2020, we promised to introduce coding and data science in schools. Today, I’m happy to see CBSE fulfilling the promise right in the session of 2021 itself.
“In association with Microsoft, CBSE is empowering India’s future generations with new-age skills. Kudos.”
The CBSE also communicated to all heads of its affiliated Institutions about the introduction of ‘coding’ and ‘data science’ as a skill module or skill subject from the current session.
The CBSE wrote that coding is a creative activity that students from any discipline can engage in and it helps to build computational thinking, develop problem solving skills, critical thinking and exposure to real life situations to solve issues in various realms.
“Therefore, coding’ is being introduced as a Skill Module of 12 hours duration in Classes 6 to 8. The idea is to simplify the coding learning experience by nurturing design thinking, logical flow of ideas and applying this across the disciplines,” its communique said.
