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Indian schools may offer international curriculum
Tuesday February 07, 2012 06:18:45 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi:
The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) will soon
introduce its international curriculum, CBSE-I, in schools in
India on trial basis, Human Resource Development Minister Kapil
Sibal said Tuesday.
Making the announcement here, the minister said CBSE-I will be for
students opting for boards like the International Baccalaureate.
The international curriculum, which would be available to students
from Class 1-12, would be taught totally through e-books. The CBSE-I
students would also have an edge over the normal CBSE course
students as they would have more foreign languages and different
syllabus for other subjects.
"This will be an option for students who want to go out of India
for higher study after Class 12," Sibal told reporters.
CBSE Chairman Vineet Joshi added that the course has already been
started in nearly 25 schools in the Gulf and south Asian
countries, and expression of interest has been invited from
schools in India to start the course from the coming academic
session.
"The pilot programme in India will include some kendriya
vidyalayas and other government and private schools," Joshi said.
"Expression of interest has been invited from schools, it will be
discussed and then the schools will be finalised," he said.
The government plans to launch the pilot programme in nearly 50
schools across India.
The annual course registration fee as proposed by the ministry is
Rs.1.5 lakh.
Sibal said that the course being totally online was a special
feature of the CBSE-I and the government planned to expand this in
coming days.
"We want to give Akash tablets in the hands of every student, then
this will be useful," Sibal said.
The minister added that the attempt was to manufacture all
components of Akash indigenously.
"We had a meeting with Bharat Electronics, we are looking for
manufacturing all components of the Akash tablet indigenously.
Otherwise it will not be possible to distribute it as widely as
planned," Sibal said.
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