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Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) getting ready to grade schools on quality of education
Selecting the best CBSE school for children will soon become an easy task for parents. To improve the role of students and parents in CBSE stream of education, the board will soon introduce grading system for all affiliated schools.
The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) is getting ready to grade schools affiliated to it. Selecting the best CBSE school for children will soon become an easy task for parents. To improve the role of students and parents in CBSE stream of education, the board will soon introduce grading system for all affiliated schools.
“We will accredit schools. The focus will be more on quality outcome rather than infrastructure,” CBSE chairman R.K. Chaturvedi said.
The Board as on 31.03.2017 has 18694 schools in India and 211 schools in 25 foreign countries. There are 1117 Kendriya Vidyalayas, 2720 Government/Aided Schools, 14253 Independent Schools, 590 Jawahar Novodaya Vidyalayas and 14 Central Tibetan Schools. Uttar Pradesh now hosts the largest number of institutes that are affiliated to the central board.
CBSE has previously said some of its affiliated schools are adopting unfair means to promote themselves without focusing on their core functions. The board has also remarked that some schools are focussed only on infrastructure, without giving due attention to the teaching or learning environment.
An earlier plan to accredit and grade schools was mooted in 2013-14 but never took off .
On Tuesday, Union human resource development minister Prakash Javadekar also told reporters that his ministry is now focusing on quality education and has embarked on a mission “sabko shiksha, achhi shiksha” (quality education for all) as an extension of the “sabka saath, sabka vikas” (with everyone, and development for everyone) slogan of the National Democratic Alliance government.
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