Approved private agencies For CBSE Students

Approved private agencies For CBSE Students

WITH an aim to raise its standard. Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has allowed its affiliated schools to be free to seek accreditation from approved private agencies.

Quality Council of India (QCI) is handling the process of voluntary accreditation. Experts said that the nation's poor showing in global teaching and learning need the urgent involvement of private sector entities.

The public-private partnership initiative follows the success of leading Indian business schools. including the elite Indian Institutes of Management, that seek accreditation from agencies such as the British Association of MBAs and the US Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business. On the same lines. Indian primary and secondary schools will be given the option to choose their accreditation agency. The CBSE has already put in place a mechanism to select private agencies. In its 12th plan. Planning Commission has expressed that the focus should be now on improving the quality of teaching and learning. It is expected tliat private agencies would evaluate key areas of schooling, including infrastructure, the use of technology in education etc. In an survey conducted in the year 2011 where student assessment was done. Indian schools placed in last two with only Kyrgyzstan faring worse. Wipro Ltd and education assessment            organization Educational Initiatives also did Quality Education Survey, where it drew a conclusion that schools in metros also teaches to learn by rote.