Indian boarding schools assess student performance
Dubai: The Central Board of Secondary Education of India is considering classifying schools linked to it, based on the performance of their students in the sciences and mathematics.
The rating system will begin soon, the schools in India in order to better compete internationally. There are 9581 CBSE schools worldwide, including 50 in the United Arab Emirates.
Ashok Ganguly, Chairman of the CBSE, New Delhi, said schools must submit 20 of its best students in the class 4, 5 and 8 for a particular test. Schools will be judged on the basis of their performance.
The goal is to see if schools in India, the brand and to competition from international competitions. The chairman of the CBSE, said the committee requires affiliated schools, the names of 20 of the best students of the year in grades 4, 5 and 8
These students will receive a test. The list of the best-performing schools on the basis of test results.
This plan has sparked a debate between authorities and parents. Most of them said rating schools based on the two themes is unfair. Some fear that the ranking of schools to motivate students and schools.
“Ranking schools is a better idea, parents to choose the school their child should visit,” Ashok Kumar, India Main High School, Dubai.
“The mathematics, natural sciences and language are the main issues which form the basis of all education. I feel like classifications parents a list of schools that are valued at up to the service, he said.
However V.K. Mathu main Abu Dhabi Indian School said it is unfair, rank schools, because all are not on an equal footing with all the others in terms of infrastructure and access to learning tools .
Rani George, Principal Global English School in Al Ain, said all matters should be of equal importance.