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Indian schools may offer international curriculum

Tuesday February 07, 2012 06:18:45 PM, IANS

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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Picture of the Day

New Delhi,27 Jan 2012-IGNOU Vice-Chancellor M Aslam receiving the "Best teaching practices Award" from noted film director Prakash Jha at the India Today Aspire education summit 2012,in New Delhi on Friday. Also in picture India Today Group's Rekha Puri.

(Photo: IANS/Amlan Paliwal)

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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