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Latest News |
| 18th
February 2010 / Times of India / Delhi Edition |
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CBSE sounds warning on arbitrary use of CCE
New Delhi: The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE)
has said the abolition of the Class X Boards should not
give schools the idea that they can introduce the new
CCE scheme according to their whims and fancy. Even as
CBSE is thinking of introducing CCE in classes XI and
XII, it is also going to introduce a ‘mentoring
and monitoring’ mechanism from March this year to
maintain uniformity in CCE practices across schools and
to check any violations.
Parents have already been complaining about the added
burden on their children, saying schools have been giving
extra weekly or daily tests, quizzes and project work
on the pretext of implementation of CCE, and now CBSE
officials too are confirming that they have been getting
reports of schools handing out daily tests, experiments
and project work ever since the introduction of the new
system. CBSE chairman Vineet Joshi said: ‘‘Everyday
tests and quizzes are against the philosophy of CCE itself.
CCE’s purpose is to destress education for children
and yet ensure the holistic growth of every child.’’
Saying that CCE activities should should be confined to
the core curriculum and that most activities should be
conducted within school hours, Joshi added: ‘‘All
projects, experiments and activities should happen strictly
during school hours, they should not be passed on as homework.
CCE is a way of evaluation and that should happen in front
of the teacher, in school.’’
The chairman said CBSE would write to all schools to curtail
any practices not prescribed by CCE. ‘‘CCE
is not implemented by conducting tests every day,’’
said Joshi.
Meanwhile, the Board is planning to train principals,
retired principals and educationists on CCE-monitoring
tools and is going to introduce the monitoring mechanism
across the country from March 2010. According to the mentoring
and monitoring mechanism, schools would be clubbed in
clusters of 10 and two to three current and former principals
or educationists would be made responsible for the monitoring
of each cluster and making random checks.
‘‘This is not ‘inspector raj’
but the trained inspectors will conduct random surveys,
interact with students and parents and will be responsible
for ensuring that no biases creep into the system. CCE
has been developed to help children and if the reverse
happens, that means the system has failed. Moreover this
mechanism will help ensure uniformity in CCE practices,”
said Joshi.
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