Newly introduced Odia textbooks for Classes I-VIII in Odisha government schools contain over 1,600 errors, including spelling, factual, geographical, and cultural mistakes. The School and Mass Education Department is rectifying the errors and will provide revised content to students.
Japan's Diet has passed a revised School Education Act, officially recognizing digital textbooks as standard and making them eligible for free distribution. The law aims to enhance learning through multimedia and accessibility features, though concerns about eyesight and concentration remain. Implementation is planned for April 2027, with full adoption expected by the 2030 academic year.
Hundreds of thousands of Gaza students will take the Tawjihi secondary school exams in tents and damaged buildings from June 20 to July 8, as 91.8% of educational facilities are inoperable due to the ongoing conflict.
CBSE mandates three languages for Class IX from July 1, with at least two being native Indian languages, aligning with NEP 2020. No Board exam for the third language in Class X.
Hachette, Macmillan and others allege that Meta pirated millions of works from textbooks to novels for Llama modelFive major publishers sued Meta Platforms in Manhattan federal court on Tuesday, alleging that the tech giant misused their books and journal articles to train its artificial intelligence models.Elsevier, Cengage, Hachette, Macmillan and McGraw Hill, as well as author Scott Turow, alleged in the proposed class-action complaint that Meta pirated millions of their works and used them without permission to train its Llama large language models to respond to human prompts. Continue reading...
