Leadership lessons for principals at IIMs

The Board has hence approached all the IIMs for strategic collaboration to provide “empowerment to principals of senior secondary schools affiliated to CBSE”. The IIM-A has confirmed a six- day programme on its campus.

The objectives of the programme are “contextualising the initiatives and flagship programmes of CBSE such as comprehensive schools health programmes,life skills programmes,adolescent education programmes and introduction of Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation (CCE) as well as other alternative modes of assessment”.

The training programme is scheduled from October 4 to October 9. The CBSE says it will give preference to those principals who have not attended any previous programme at IIM and are active partners of various initiatives of the Board.

CBSE to hold training for Japanese teachers
To orient and update teachers teaching Japanese with the new syllabi,the textual material and evaluation procedures,the Central Board of Secondary Education is holding a teachers training course. This comes in the wake of the Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation (CCE) scheme being implemented in Class IX and extended to Class X in April. “The programmes are spanned over a period of six months to be held on alternate Fridays of every month,” said the official. “They will be conducted from 3.30-5.30 pm at the Japan Foundation,New Delhi.” The training will start from July.