3 months, 4 weeks ago

CISCE to crackdown on dummy schools, cautions institutions awarding inflated marks in internal assessments

The Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations will crack down on affiliated schools that have enrolled dummy students. CISCE chief executive and secretary Dr Joseph Emmanuel spoke to Hindustan Times and said the council has zero-tolerance policy against dummy institutions. Schools awarding inflated marks to students in the internal assessments in a quest to put them in the merit list may soon find it difficult to do so as the Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations, which conducts ICSE and ISC examinations, is working on a mechanism to check the malpractice. We, at the council, are working on a mechanism to address the issue.” “We will do some kind of handholding of such schools and their teachers will be trained so that they do a fair assessment of their students' performance in internal assessment.” “The council had started internal evaluation with the sole purpose to make the students stress-free and comfortable ahead of their Board examinations.

Hindustan Times

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