CBSE has more than 16 full-fledged regional offices in the country manned by permanent employees. These regional offices monitor every aspect of exams, from transportation to selection of exam centres, custodians, invigilators, and evaluation.
CBSE official Sanyam Bhardwaj also said if a candidate has opted for over 5 subjects, the decision to determine best 5 subjects may be taken by admitting institution or employer.
India’s school curriculum has undergone four revisions—in 1975, 1988, 2000 and 2005—with the last one driven by the politically contested nature of syllabus restructuring under BJP in 2000.
Tangible outcome of this transformation is students who clear Class 10, 12 will receive a joint certificate of AP board & International Baccalaureate, says vision document.
Sanjay Kumar, Secretary, Department of School Education and Literacy, Ministry of Education, made the remarks Thursday at an interaction with principals of CBSE schools.
Education ministry letter sent under govt initiative to promote reading proficiency with understanding & numeracy chalks role of stakeholders at national, state, district, school & parental levels.
Like Class 12, CBSE will not announce an overall merit list for Class 10 results either, but will issue a merit certificate to students who have scored the highest marks in subjects.
This year, Jawan and The Kerala Story both won National Awards. The irony was impossible to miss. One critiqued the system, the other endorsed its narratives. The dichotomy says more about India’s cultural schizophrenia than any film review ever could.
New CPI series will take 2024 as base year, will provide more accurate measure of inflation, spending on digital services. Expected to enhance representation and reliability, says Saurabh Garg.
The agreement, signed after meeting between Rajnath and US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth on sidelines of ADMM-Plus in Kuala Lumpur, aims to deepen bilateral ties in the critical sector.
This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.
When government takes over any system which can otherwise be run well by other agencies the following take place:
1. The system becomes fossilized with no innovation allowed. The same tone I find in this article also. ‘We were doing a good job’. Even if there are umpteen ways of doing it better outside the government control.
2. Corruption sets into this moribund system.
3. The system collapses and the government spends the tax money on probes, commissions to fix responsibility, investigations, litigation, etc..
4. Finally when everything goes out of hand, it allows other agencies to do the job it bungled.
All these things have happened with the governments trying to control the admissions in the entire country. This is not a lone case. Take for example, the telecom department before it was opened up for private sector participation, liquor vending by the government agencies and the consequent deaths due to illicit liquor, the farm sector, the electricity sector, this is a long list.
The government should learn that it has been elected to govern and facilitate government. Not to take over the business of others.
Very informative piece by Mr Anil Swarup, who has also served as a former school education Secretary of the Govt of India. One can only hope that the recently appointed Committee, which has now sought the views of students and parents also on ways to ensure the sanctity of the examination process, will come up with actionable solutions to address this seeming mess in the testing process for admission to higher education institutions. The bigger expectation, though, would be that the suggestions put forward by the panel are implemented in both letter and spirit, and the recommendations do not remain confined to the files only.
When government takes over any system which can otherwise be run well by other agencies the following take place:
1. The system becomes fossilized with no innovation allowed. The same tone I find in this article also. ‘We were doing a good job’. Even if there are umpteen ways of doing it better outside the government control.
2. Corruption sets into this moribund system.
3. The system collapses and the government spends the tax money on probes, commissions to fix responsibility, investigations, litigation, etc..
4. Finally when everything goes out of hand, it allows other agencies to do the job it bungled.
All these things have happened with the governments trying to control the admissions in the entire country. This is not a lone case. Take for example, the telecom department before it was opened up for private sector participation, liquor vending by the government agencies and the consequent deaths due to illicit liquor, the farm sector, the electricity sector, this is a long list.
The government should learn that it has been elected to govern and facilitate government. Not to take over the business of others.
Very informative piece by Mr Anil Swarup, who has also served as a former school education Secretary of the Govt of India. One can only hope that the recently appointed Committee, which has now sought the views of students and parents also on ways to ensure the sanctity of the examination process, will come up with actionable solutions to address this seeming mess in the testing process for admission to higher education institutions. The bigger expectation, though, would be that the suggestions put forward by the panel are implemented in both letter and spirit, and the recommendations do not remain confined to the files only.
Miss the columnist’s tweets. Including what Chanakya didn’t say.