Over 100 private schools have applied to the DSE for NOC to start CBSE schools.

Updated on: Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Over 100 private schools in the state have applied to the Directorate of School Education (DSE) for no-objection certificates to start CBSE schools with an aim to fix their own fees structure and have a flexible curriculum to attract more students.
 
Private matriculation school managements claimed that with minimal fees fixed by the state fee fixation committee it had become tough for them to run the schools.

A school correspondent said on condition of anonymity, “Only students and parents of matriculation schools make issues about tuition fee hikes. Parents pay more for quality in CBSE schools which is why several private matriculation school managements have approached the Directorate of School Education for no-objection certificates to start separate CBSE schools,”

Citing various academic flexibilities available in the CBSE system, another administrator of a private matriculation school said that even though the state government implemented uniform school curriculum (samacheer kalvi) it lacked academic freedom.

“If a student fails in one of the five core subjects, CBSE allows the school to replace it with marks scored in the sixth subject (Physical Education or Handicrafts). With this kind of initiative I don’t think a student fails,” the administrator pointed out.

Sources in the School Education department, meanwhile, alleged that none of these schools had shut their existing institution but had put up a separate CBSE school next door.

It is, however, reliably learnt that the state government is likely to clear the proposals submitted by these schools as the CBSE had extended the deadline for schools to submit the no-objection certificates from the state government.

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