Dinesh Kamath's Editorial 'CCE is a good method' that was published in Newsband

CCE is a good method

The excellence of a school education system must be assessed by the creative individuals it produces. The HRD department and Educational & Cultural minister should collaboratively think about new way to improve the education system and students skills too. Continuous Comprehensive and Evaluation (CCE) is a good method to make students good at their studies. Instead of restricting them to text book knowledge we should give a space to case studies and practical oriented teaching.

Now a days X, XI, XII is worse than studies in 19th century. They are training the students to get ranks in their studies no to cope up with society. They are lagging in the other things like sports, cultural, inventions, arts.

If the student`s propensity is towards regurgitation then it is fault of everyone involved - student himself, teachers, education system, parents etc. Early in the classes, the student should be told what he is expected to do and then kept a periodic watch upon, after which we will surely be able to visualize the change. Both the teachers and parents (more so) focus on verbatim regurgitation of what was taught or is in the text book. The quintessentially important issue of innovation and creativity is not going to get solved by either a compulsory board exam or lack of it. The CCE initiative is definitely a step in the right direction.

The abolition of CCE will be detrimental to the creativity of the student. A lot of thought and planning has gone into it. Teachers training programmes were conducted to make this programme a success. Students are being evaluated in every area and they are developed, there is growth. Students become confident and develop leadership qualities.

Abolition of CCE means going bank to Guides of different subjects where students just mug up answers without grasping and understanding just to get more marks. In these days of acute global competition we should try to make every youth brilliant with innovative excellent programmes. For holistic development, prepare them to face challenges in life - not just concentrate in a small area. Before taking any drastic step let us plan out giving good thought to it.

It is not that the system of "no exams" is wrong, but it is being used to cut corners and blindly push students to the next grade without taking any action to help students improve. There is a scam brewing in the education industry where schools are asked to retain as many students as they can so that the school does not lose money; this has given rise to teachers giving "good marks" to students so that parents think the school is doing a good job of improving their child. But in reality the students are performing poorly and lacking even basic reading, writing and arithmetic skills.

The education system should encourage "Skills" that enables every student to get through successfully any Exam / any time. The current phobia towards exam needs remedy. This would "mould" each one to shine in life in their area of choice.