MORE MIGRATE FROM STATE BOARD TO CBSE
Ram.Sundaram & Vinayashree J | TNN 17.05.2018
More than 32,000 fewer students appeared for state board examination this year from the number the previous year. Nearly half of them moved to CBSE schools, whose numbers increased from 250 in 2010 to 830 in 2018, Tamil Nadu government records show.
The 260% increase is a result of matriculation schools moving to CBSE and few simultaneously operating branches that offer matriculation. Educationists attribute this to introduction of NEET and JEE and a drop in quality of the state board. “The Centre indirectly pushed [the schools] toward CBSE by making NEET mandatory,” educationist Prince Gajendra Babu said. Ashok Shankar, of Tamil Nadu CBSE Schools Management Association, said the board’s poor record also nudged schools toward CBSE.
However, a school education department official said students would be lured back when the government releases new textbooks with the revised syllabus. “In another three to four years, these students will migrate back to our schools,” he said.
Some experts attributed the decrease in the number of students who appeared for the exams to a possible rise in the dropout rate. However, the dip in government school enrolment does not correspond to an increase in matric school student numbers. Growth in state board schools has been marginal this year.
Ram.Sundaram & Vinayashree J | TNN 17.05.2018
More than 32,000 fewer students appeared for state board examination this year from the number the previous year. Nearly half of them moved to CBSE schools, whose numbers increased from 250 in 2010 to 830 in 2018, Tamil Nadu government records show.
The 260% increase is a result of matriculation schools moving to CBSE and few simultaneously operating branches that offer matriculation. Educationists attribute this to introduction of NEET and JEE and a drop in quality of the state board. “The Centre indirectly pushed [the schools] toward CBSE by making NEET mandatory,” educationist Prince Gajendra Babu said. Ashok Shankar, of Tamil Nadu CBSE Schools Management Association, said the board’s poor record also nudged schools toward CBSE.
However, a school education department official said students would be lured back when the government releases new textbooks with the revised syllabus. “In another three to four years, these students will migrate back to our schools,” he said.
Some experts attributed the decrease in the number of students who appeared for the exams to a possible rise in the dropout rate. However, the dip in government school enrolment does not correspond to an increase in matric school student numbers. Growth in state board schools has been marginal this year.
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