CBSE Schools Might Share Resources And Have Joint Activities, From July 1

As a new effort towards academic proficiency, CBSE will be considering a group of schools and the community around them as a unit rather than an individual school. This new concept promotes growing together and is called collaborative learning hub (CLH). It promotes five or so schools to share resources, help each other in capacity building, conduct joint activities, facilitate teacher student exchanges and design their own curriculum and papers for Classes I to VIII.

Collaborative Learning Hub (CLH) will come into operation from July 1, is mandatory and its outcome will be part of the audit for the affiliation and upgradation of schools. Around 22,000 affiliated institutions have been grouped into 4,500 district hubs, under this scheme.

With this remarkable shift in school education that has been welcomed by most schools, private and government, the CBSE board has adopted CLH to enable a group of schools to work together throughout the year in which they will be sharing their infrastructure and resources, practices and help each other while acting as changemakers in their localities. The secretary of CBSE, Anurag Tripathi, said that many schools don’t have resources and in others they are not put to optimum use.

The hub that will be formed by the group of schools and community is also to share resources like laboratories, auditoria, sports facilities, and organise training for principals and staff as well as sports and cultural events, science exhibitions, debates and quizzes, and other activities. It will also be pushed to conduct seminars on issues like safety and security, energy and water conservation, environment, digital innovations, ethics and leadership skills.

Each one of these hubs are expected to make efforts to connect with the industrial units, factories, administrative headquarters, security services, institutions of higher learning and business houses present in the locality to get insights into and learn from life and society. To promote community service, these hubs will be encouraged to adopt a school and village or develop gardens, among other such activities. Tripathi also said that the hub will also ensure that each student engages in a hobby or sport or learn a vocational skill.

According to the guidelines of CLH, it is mandatory for each hub to hold at least one monthly meeting and take turns at hosting activities every month. On the basis of the results in Classes X and XII teacher-student ratio, infrastructure, digital initiatives, sports facilities, extracurriculars, innovations and participation in international, national, regional, state and district-level events, every two years the institutions will decide on lead school in the hub.

By: Preeti Narula

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