School days in Karnataka set to decrease by 26 days

BENGALURU: Children studying in state syllabus schools will receive a huge boon as the number of school days will drastically decrease from last year.

As per guidelines issued by the Department of School Education on the coming academic year 2023-24, the number of school days for children will be reduced by 26 days. The guidelines stated that the total number of school days will be 244 compared to last year’s 270, of which only 180 days will be teaching days. These drastic change have been attributed to the pandemic and the lack of learning recovery programme this year.

To make up for the loss of learning that occurred over the pandemic, the academic year 2022-23 began earlier than usual, starting mid-May and overlapped on holidays, so that students could have extra teaching days.