Education Minister, Vinod Tawde declared on May 3, Thursday that thirteen government schools in rural Maharashtra will follow the curriculum set by Maharashtra International Education Board (MIEB) from the upcoming academic year (2018-19). Nursery to Class 3 in these schools will be run as per the new portion, as a part of the first phase.
For the first phase, a list of 13 Ojas International Schools of Zilla Parishad has been announced on May 5, Saturday. This includes sections of Amravati, Aurangabad, Konkan, Nagpur, Nashik and Pune.
The initiative of the Education Department is to provide international education to the students of the rural areas. This is expected to reduce the number of admissions in private schools without access to government schools. MIEB schools will be using local languages along with international education. The board will teach the students Hindi, Marathi, Urdu, Gujarati, Telugu, Kannada and Tamil.
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106 schools had applied for 'Ojas International School'. Out of these applications, 13 schools having outstanding performance in various departments have been selected. Soon these schools will be given international status and necessary changes will be made in the education system.
After the implementation in 13 schools from the first phase, the government now aims to introduce the curriculum in 100 government-run schools by the next academic year.
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