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New Delhi: Students of state boards, who are often at a disadvantage while taking admission in universities or applying for government jobs due to different systems of marking and evaluation, will soon get the qualifying equivalence for their class 10 and 12 certificates.
ThePrint learned that in order to bridge the disparity between different school boards, the Ministry of Education has entrusted the Association of Indian Universities (AIU) with the task of equivalence of secondary and senior secondary school certificates from various boards in India.
Different boards have their own ways of allocating marks and assessing students, and this sometimes becomes an issue with universities. The latest example is the students of Kerala Board filling maximum seats Among the most sought after colleges of Delhi University in the last few months.
In November, the education ministry had written to the AIU asking it to start working on standard operating procedures (SOPs), which would help in equilibration of secondary and senior secondary school certificates issued by various boards.
“It has come to the notice of the Government that students are facing difficulties in relation to the equivalence of certificates issued by various Boards of School Education in India for the purposes of admission in higher secondary institutions and employment in the Central and State Governments, ” What was said. Letter from the ministry, a copy of which is with ThePrint.
“The Ministry of Education is entrusting the responsibility of providing equivalence to the Secondary/Senior Secondary certificates of examination qualification of 10th and 12th standard by the Board of Examinations in India,” it said.
AIU is presently in the process of preparing SOP for Certificate Equivalence. According to officials, the SOP will ensure that the school boards adhere to the examination bye-laws as per the National Curriculum Framework (NCP). national education policy (NEP) and the provisions of the Right to Education Act.
The ministry’s letter to the AIU said, “Equality will be given only in accordance with the laws.”
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Equivalence for foreign degrees
AIU giving Equivalent to foreign higher education degree in India. Foreign degrees, mainly one-year postgraduate degrees, must have an equivalent certificate from AIU if the student wishes to enroll in a PhD program or apply for a government job.
They have been doing the same for foreign education boards such as Cambridge and the International Baccalaureate (IB). However, till now there was no mechanism for 60-odd state boards (public and private) in the country to do so.
The conditions for granting equivalence for foreign boards are: For class 10, the student must have completed at least 10 years of studies and must have passed in at least five subjects, including English. For class 12, the student must have completed at least 12 years of schooling and must have passed in at least four subjects. In addition, the school board must be recognized by the Ministry of Education.
“We have been providing equivalents for foreign higher education degrees for a long time and hence we have the expertise to work with. We are currently working on finalizing the SOP for the process and with it in the next three months Should be able to come,” AIU general secretary Pankaj Mittal told ThePrint.
“There are many boards in India which are not known by universities and government establishments and students face problems while taking admission or applying for government jobs. Hence the need was felt to bring in a system of parity so that establishments can understand where the board stands in terms of assessment of their students,” he said.
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a DU example
A Delhi University professor on condition of anonymity told ThePrint, “When we are admitting a student from a state board, like Bengal or Bihar or any other board, we are not sure how to mark them. done because some boards are very conservative with them. Marking like CBSE and others are very kind. So we have no way of ascertaining the true knowledge of the student.”
Indian Certificate of Secondary Education (ICSE) and Central Board of Secondary Examination (CBSE) are two Indian school boards that come under the purview of the central government.
Delhi University had recently formed a Panel To study the admission rates and average admission percentage of students from various boards including state boards, CBSE, and the Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations Examination (CISCE). In its report submitted to the academic council of the university last week, the panel found that the maximum number of students who took admission were from CBSE, Kerala Board, Rajasthan Board and Haryana Board.
The acceptance rate was higher for these boards – CBSE (16.47 per cent), Kerala (39.18 per cent), Rajasthan (27.75 per cent) and Haryana (18.39 per cent). The acceptance rate is the number of admissions out of the number of students who applied.
It was also found that the highest average admission percentage was for Kerala Board (98.43 per cent), followed by Telangana State Board of Intermediate Education at 95.41 per cent and Rajasthan Board at 94.68 per cent.
It was 91.3 percent for CBSE Board and 92.33 percent for CISCE. Average admission percentage is the average cut-off percentage at which students were admitted.
(Edited by Gitanjali Das)
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