CBSE Stops 41 Academic & Vocational Courses For 2017/18

In a recent circular, the CBSE Board has announced it will withdraw 41 vocational courses from the Senior-Secondary curriculum, due to 'low enrollment.'

Schools are advised not to offer these subjects at Senior-Secondary level from the new academic year (2017/18).

For students already pursuing these subjects in Grade 11, they are permitted to continue, however, no new students should be accepted by CBSE schools in the 2017/18 academic year, for these subjects.

The subjects to be discontinued are:

Academic Electives at the Senior-Secondary level:

• Philosophy
• Creative writing and translation studies
• Heritage craft
• Graphic design
• Human rights and gender studies
• Theatre studies
• Library and information studies

Vocational subjects at Senior-Secondary level:

• Poultry nutrition and physiology
• Poultry products and technology
• Poultry disease and their control
• Foundary technology
• Management of dairy animals
• Milk marketing and entrepreneurship
• Dairy product technology
• Nail technology and retail
• Art and science of make-up and retail
• Estimation in civil engineering
• Elementary structural mechanics
• Secretarial practice and accounting
• Office communication
• AC and refrigeration-1
• AC and refrigeration-2
• Biology ophthalmic 
• Optics
• Ophthalmic technology
• Lab medicine (MLT)
• Clinical Biochemistry (MLT)
• Microbiology (MLT)
• Radiation physics
• Radiography-1
• Radiography-2
• Health education and communication
• First aid and emergency medical care
• Child health nursing
• Midwifery
• Health care management
• Integrated transport operations
• Bakery
• Confectionary
• Music aesthetics 
• Music production

For more information on the CBSE Board changes to the curriculum see:

CBSE Changes for Grade 6 to 9

CBSE Changes for Grade 10 Examinations