CBSE stops permanent affiliation to schools

NewsBharati    05-Feb-2018
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New Delhi, February 5: The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has decided to stop issuing permanent affiliation to schools as it did earlier. According to the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR), the policy was the direct violation of the Right to Education Act.

“All schools affiliated permanently with the board will be considered as provisionally affiliated at par with other affiliated schools and will apply for an extension of affiliation accordingly within the prescribed period with effect from the date of the issue of this notification," according to an official notification by the CBSE.

This comes a year after the board tweaked the continuous and comprehensive evaluation (CCE) system to introduced a new system for assessment of the performance of the students of classes VI to IX from the academic session of 2017-18 "to bring uniformity in the exercise."

In a notification issued in March ahead of the start of the new academic session in April last year, the board had also set rules for conduct of the school-based examination of the students of classes VI to IX, preparation of the report cards. "As per the decision of the governing body of the board, the circular on the subject stands repealed to the extent it applies to classes VI to VIII," the CBSE said.

The governing board of the CBSE decided to withdraw the uniform assessment rules for classes VI to VIII at its meeting on December 15 last year after the NCPCR's objections were placed before it for its consideration.

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