Wednesday, August 20, 2014

CBSE School Information


The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has made it mandatory for all affiliated schools to prepare a website with their complete details and a letter has been issued to the all the schools from the joint secretary of CBSE.
According to the letter, the information required to be present on the school website include details of CBSE guidelines and norms, student strength, information about teaching staff, student-teacher ratio, contact details of administrators, comprehensive information about school, infrastructure, governance and qualification of teachers. The details are to be collected as an annual report and uploaded before September 15 each year.
Below is a link to circulars sent to this effect in past years.
It has also been highlighted that the defaulter school failing to comply will not be able to register their candidates for Board Examinations and the responsibility would lie with school management. However, the impacted personnel are the students and the parents in the event of such failure.
If you are seeking admission for your child to a CBSE school, then such cheat sheet can be very helpful and if you do not find one for any school, you should request the management about the same. If you are already a school parent, then your child’s school compliant? If not, then please urge the school management to comply with the same.

SchoolConnects will try and bring such insights & more to the benefit of the parent community seeking school admission

Tuesday, August 12, 2014

Introducing SchoolAdmissionInfo







We would like to introduce to the Parents in Chennai, SchoolAdmissionInfo, a free service to Indian Parent Community providing latest updates on school admissions, kindergarten in particular.

Why??
School Admissions can be a daunting task on any parent. The admission process/exercise could be grueling. Parents have been going from pillar-to-post trying to get their children into school. Community resources are wasted with multiple people calling multiple schools multiple times to get the same details like age criteria, form availability etc. Information such as fees and other logistics are not even shared by school until the child makes it through application process.
What??
SchoolAdmissionInfo.in is a free service to the parent community in Chennai providing all information related to the admission process across the schools in city. Parents can not only view the information on the website but also subscribe for alerts on e-mail and mobile phones. They can also contribute and exchange information with other parents.
How??
A dedicated team works round the clock all year gathering such information from schools by reaching them over phone or in person. Data points are captured from other sources too, including internet research. The same is then posted on the website. This exercise is done in a cyclic basis with the frequency depending on number of factors like school reputation, number of subscription etc.
Help us to improve the community productivity by sharing this information with friends and family.