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    • The Indian Express Tags : Sibal, board exams, education Posted: Saturday , Jun 27, 2009 at 0349 hrs

    The primary note of caution for Sibal is to not rush in, least of all with the single board. The proposals must be thought through and analysed in perspective, and dissociated from the breathlessness of a 100-day rhetoric. While education needs a largescale overhaul, leaping from inactivity or useless activity (as under Sibal’s predecessor) to hyper-activity will not help. One only needs to imagine the problem-ridden CBSE turning into the proposed national board to understand the dangers involved. Still, caution is not scepticism, and Sibal should embark on revolutionising education, and do so by broadening the national debate.

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    AgarwalBy: Kamal | 07-Jul-2009 Reply | Forward Dear Sir,Mr.Sibal,Hon.Minister of Education propossed for single Board is a matter of thorough discussion. He should see the pros and cons of the single board no doubt the idea is good but its implementation is not. What about Kothari Commission in Schools were they implemented? Today schools are all commercial and loaded with corruption.What are our children getting in the name of education? Where is their practical knowledge and what is the percentage of talanted students? The need for one board is not that necessary as the structure of our education system is to be changed. There is no education for weaker students (admission nowhere) every school colleges want cream students with 90-99% cutouts why? The teachers must be up to the mark so there is a need of quality education not the Board.
    Lost directionBy: Prasanna | 29-Jun-2009 Reply | Forward I think the minister is missing the whole point here. One india is made of different cultures and we are bound together only by religion or out national identity. Any centralized education board is not going work. I think the minister has not found the root cause of the problem. The problem in my opinion to focus on delivering the same standard of education to a student studying in chennai and a student studying 100 miles away from chennai. This should be a focus. Focus should be on honest introspection(without any political intervention) of the syllabus for maths,languages,science,history. For india to become competitive we need to have students coming out of the system who have stood test of their ability and will.
    Not Going to WorkBy: Nija | 28-Jun-2009 Reply | Forward This one board for a nation funda is definitely not going to work. Definitely not with the backdrop of the diversity we possess in our country, and considering the varied nature of the requirements out of a curriculum in different parts of the country. Having a national level board dictate the curriculum children in my state study is definitely not acceptable, especially so with the kind of experiences we've already had in CBSE/ICSE books talking cheap about Kannada (being a great language, and a major unifying factor to a major mass of people for ages in history) in its books that get distributed to the entire country. I dont think a new national board that Sibal is proposing can work in any different direction than the existing CBSE like boards.Sibal would be better off dropping this idea - which would def'ly have to be the outcome of his discussion with State education ministers. Instead please come up with plans to enrich education in all Indian languages, at all levels.
    single board for XII but state divisions at VIII/XBy: Anupam Gupta | 28-Jun-2009 Reply | Forward Without doubt, there is a need for a board exam before the final one (XII). Mr Sibal at one point should be commended for bringing some changes in our 19th century system. at the same time, all these changes should be well thought of and with confidence of majority. Nobody should feel that they have been bulldozed into it. Although a MEGA central board with bring uniformity but at the same time, a bord of this size would be difficult to manage - so there should be a sensible decentralization where the current state boards could play a role. Also, it would be worth having a non-local exam (board) exam for VII/X before they take a final plunge as the stakes sometimes are too high and teachers should also get a reality check. Third, there should be a system of carrot and stick and well performing institutes should get a better funding and administration at poorly performed schools should be accountable to provide reasoning as to why they could not deliver...
    Sabotaging Educational ReformsBy: Dr. Ram Chander Sharma | 27-Jun-2009 Reply | Forward Before a blue print of much needed educational reforms is out, vested interests are working over time to sabotage the process on the name of language, culture and regionalism. There are different timings and sylabi for the different school boards of the country. There were unprecendented strikes and bunds last year on the issue of Shri Amarnath ji land row, students lost the precious study time. The students belonging to the vulnerable states and living in most corrupt states suffer for lack of miontoring and unfare means adopted by the influencials. As the case of J
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