NEW DELHI: Terming it as a big day for Delhiites, chief minister Arvind Kejriwal announced a collaboration between the Delhi Board of School Education and the International Baccalaureate board. Now, 30 Delhi government schools will be undertaking the IB programme through this partnership.
The schools adopting the IB curriculum will be affiliated with DBSE. With the signing of an agreement of collaboration with the Geneva-based IB, these schools will be adopting global practices in curriculum, pedagogy and assessment. Among the schools that are part of the new curriculum are classes IX-XII in 20 Specialised Schools of Excellence and classes up to VIII in 10 Sarvodaya Vidyalayas.\
At a press conference on Wednesday, Kejriwal declared, “I have come with good news for Delhi’s children and parents. The Centre has the central board of education and every state has its own board. So, we recently created Delhi Board of School Education. People undermined our vision for education in Delhi and thought we started a state board for the sake of it. It is not so. DBSE has now signed an MoU with the IB, which provides international education. It is the dream of rich parents to send their children to IB schools. The governments of big countries like the United States and Spain have an MOU with IB. DBSE also now has an agreement with IB and our children will get an international education.”
Kejriwal said that in the past few years, the results showed how government schools had dramatically improved in academics. “We were at a juncture where we had to improve what was being taught, how it was being taught and we had to bring our children up to international standards,” he said. “This will be a great model for the rest of our country and it will show the rest of our country how we can provide quality education to the most underprivileged people.” He added that more schools would be included in the programme.
