Financial Daily from THE HINDU group of publications
Wednesday, Feb 18, 2004
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Education Cambridge varsity to expand exam certification in India Our Bureau
New Delhi , Feb. 17 IT was once Cambridge University's exam certification that monopolised Indian school education. In fact, in 1958 it collaborated with the Indian Government to set up its own Indian School Certificate Board. And now, once again Cambridge University is back in the country seeing the opportunities before it post-globalisation. It finds private schools keen on international certification, instead of the India-specific ones. In Delhi alone till last month, 13 schools had affixed the tag `international' to their name and some have called themselves `world' schools. Most of them offer students international school leaving certifications. Currently, the University of Cambridge International Examinations (CIE) has as many as 110 schools in India taking its international certification — International General Certificate of Secondary Education (IGCSE) — and another 53 are exploring the possibility of registering for it. On its part, the CIE has been organising awareness campaigns in the form of workshops and teachers' training across metros to involve school principals. "Today students and parents are interested in a particular type of opportunities and advantages that the certification would give them and hence we are being considered in many of the schools,'' said Dr Fred Burke, CIE's Director of South Asia and Mauritius.
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