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Latest News |
| 25th
Aug 2010 / Times of India / Ahmedabad Edition |
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Gujarat gets its own open school board
Ahmedabad: Gujarat Open School Board (GOSB) has been constituted
by the Gujarat Secondary and Higher Secondary Education
Board (GSHSEB) to facilitate thousands of students who
take SSC and HSC board exams externally.
This unprecedented move follows the boards decision to
help about 70,000 students. These students are those who
had either dropped out of school or left education for
jobs and later decide to take the board exams externally
to complete their education.
The GSHSEB officials that nearly 25,000 students appear
for the SSC board as external students annually. The number
goes up to 40,000-45,000 in HSC board exams.
Under the GOSB, the external students will get the option
to enrol themselves for weekend classes which will be
started in schools all over the state. These classes will
run on Saturday and Sunday, where teachers will give the
external students guidance in terms of preparing the syllabus
for the exams and solving their difficulties. The GSHSEB
has also decided to pay some remuneration to the teachers,
who will be appointed to help the external students to
keep the motivational levels high. Vice-chairman of GSHSEB
HK Patel said that the rules of the GOSB are being framed.
We are making provisions to make books, guides and other
reading material available to the external students from
board, as well as, the school libraries. The aim is to
facilitate the initiative of more and more students who
have left their education in between, said Patel.
He said that there is also a move to ensure that the external
students are eligible to apply for certain professional
courses for their further studies.
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