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It is important to provide a certain amount of autonomy in the school education system, according to Ashok Ganguly, chairman of the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE).
Discussing the State Government’s move towards a uniform syllabus, in Chennai on Thursday, Dr. Ganguly told The Hindu that since education was a concurrent subject, States were free to consider such steps. However, he said an element of choice and flexibility was essential.
With some Matriculation schools unhappy with the move, since they feel that a uniform syllabus would dilute the quality of education they provide, a number of them are considering a shift to the CBSE system. Dr. Ganguly made it clear that the CBSE would not be able to accept them into its fold unless they were able to produce a ‘No Objection Certificate’ from the State Government.
With the Class 10 and 12 board examinations beginning in a week’s time, the CBSE was preparing to implement its revised question paper format, to include questions assessing Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) in children. Twenty per cent of the paper would include such questions to evaluate a student’s ability to reason and analyse, rather than test their memory power, said Dr. Ganguly. Once the examinations started, the CBSE would begin the process of giving head examiners face-to-face instructions on how to assess this section. While some schools and students were scrambling to accommodate this new format, Dr. Ganguly said it was merely part of the new national curriculum framework and that model question papers had been available on the CBSE website from September.
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