Inside India’s 90-day countdown for CBSE schools to embrace AI
About this episode
The episode discusses India's mandate for AI education in CBSE schools and the challenges faced during the implementation period.
In April, India made AI education mandatory across 28,000 CBSE schools, giving them 90 days to comply. Most had already finalised their academic calendars for the year. Some schools were ready. Others scrambled. A few found that the harder problem wasn't the teachers — it was the students. At one Hyderabad school already using an AI learning tool, kids were From 2029, AI becomes a compulsory board exam subject and the government is betting that deadline will change everything. Tune in. Daybreak is produced from the newsroom of The Ken, India’s first subscriber-only business news platform. Subscribe for more exclusive, deeply-reported, and analytical business stories.
Topics covered
- AI education
- CBSE schools
- India
- academic calendars
- student readiness
Keywords
- AI education
- CBSE
- India
- schools
- academic calendars
- students
- learning tools
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: CBSE
Places: India, Hyderabad
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