Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], February 24 (ANI/NewsVoir): With the third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic finally showing signs of abating in India, students across the country are all set to resume full-time offline classes.
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BENGALURU: Parents of students from Jain Heritage School in Hebbal protested outside the school on Monday, demanding to know why access to online classes was blocked. Many haven’t paid fees, waiting for a transparency in the fee structure and the breakup of the components, that they had demanded for earlier. “We are ready to make the payment. All we need is clarity about the fees,” said Aparna, president of the parents association. The management assured access to classes but went back on their word after the local education officer left the scene, parents told TNIE.
“Students of the same class have different fee structures. We were also told that the three installments were all tuition fees and had to be paid,” she added. She said that talks were going on from January about school fees and parents were surprised that access to online classes were severed suddenly. To know the reason, parents went to school, but even when three parents approached
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The assessment criteria for class X 2021 results has set the precedent. but academics suggest the Board should weigh the pros and cons
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In view of the second Covid wave, experts have called for the need to devise alternate assessment criteria and the cancellation of the CBSE class XII Boards 2021, keeping students’ safety in mind. Earlier, CBSE had stated that the class XII boards 2021 dates will be reviewed in the first week of June. With CBSE releasing the policy document for class X result calculation that lists out the internal assessment based on the periodic, half yearly and pre-board exams, the need for assessing class XII board students on similar parameters is being increasingly emphasised upon.