Know CBSE Central Board of Secondary Education | Schools, Admission, Exams, Eligibility

CBSE also known as Central Board of Secondary Education (केंद्रीय माध्यमिक शिक्षा बोर्ड) was set in 1921. The Board witnessed rapid growth and expansion at the level of Secondary education resulting in improved quality and standard of education in institutions. The jurisdiction of the Board is extensive and stretches beyond the national geographical boundaries. Today total No. of Schools affiliated with CBSE are 22697.

CBSE Main objectives are:

• To define appropriate approaches of academic activities to provide stress free, child centered and holistic education to all children without compromising on quality
  To analyze and monitor the quality of academic activities by collecting the feedback from different stakeholders
  To develop norms for implementation of various academic activities including quality issues; to control and coordinate the implementation of various academic and training programmes of the Board; to organize academic activities and to supervise other agencies involved in the process
  To adapt and innovate methods to achieve academic excellence in conformity with psychological, pedagogical and social principles.
  To encourage schools to document the progress of students in a teacher and student friendly way
  To propose plans to achieve quality benchmarks in school education consistent with the National goals
  To organize various capacity building and empowerment programmes to update the professional competency of teachers
  To prescribe conditions of examinations and conduct public examination at the end of Class X and XII. To grant qualifying certificates to successful candidates of the affiliated schools.
  To fulfill the educational requirements of those students whose parents were employed in transferable jobs
  To prescribe and update the course of instructions of examinations
  To affiliate institutions for the purpose of examination and raise the academic standards of the country.

The prime focus of the Board is on:

• Innovations in teaching-learning methodologies by devising students friendly and students centered paradigms
  Reforms in examinations and evaluation practices.
  Skill learning by adding job-oriented and job-linked inputs
  Regularly updating the pedagogical skills of the teachers and administrators by conducting in service training programmes, workshops etc.

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