CBSE move to rank schools sparks debate in UAE
The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) of India after the son of Associated Schools ranking is based on student performance in math and science have sparked a debate in the United Arab Emirates. Parents and authorities are discussed here, is it fair to judge students on their perceptions in only two subjects.
CBSE chairman Ashok Ganguly had said that the new grading system, which helps schools in India to better compete internationally.
Under the new system, schools must have 20 of the best students in her class from 4, 5 and 8 especially for a test.
Schools are then evaluated on the basis of their performance.
“Ranking schools is a better idea, parents to choose the school their child to visit, the” Gulf News quoting Ashok Kumar, director of the India High School here, as a matter of course.
“The mathematics, natural sciences and language are the main issues that form the basis of all education. I believe that such rankings to parents a list of schools that are valued up to the performance.”
However V.K. Mathu, Principal of the Abu Dhabi Indian School, ran.
He said it was unfair towards the ranking of schools, because all do not have the same quality of infrastructure and access to Lernwerkzeugen, the newspaper reports.
Rani George, director of the Global English School in Al Ain, was of the opinion that all letters must be of equal importance.
Of the 9581 CBSE schools in the world, 50 in the United Arab Emirates and most of the children of 1.4 million people expatriate Indian community in this golf Nation to these schools.