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Indian Express- Nursery admission: Most parents not for the alumni criterion, Naveed Iqbal : New Delhi, Sun Dec 02 2012,

Nursery admission: Most parents not for the alumni criterion

Naveed Iqbal : New Delhi, Sun Dec 02 2012, 00:44 hrs

With the nursery admission season in the Capital about to begin, a survey report has suggested that parents are against having the alumni criterion in selection of applicants to a school.

Last year, the alumni criterion was a subject of debate as many in the general category could not seek admission even after applying in more than 20 schools.

The survey was carried out by admission guidance blog admissionsnursery.com. According to the website, over 2000 parents took the survey. Of them, 53.2 per cent said only neighbourhood criterion should be considered for nursery admissions.

Only 4.2 per cent voted for the alumni criterion to be considered for admission.

Many schools in Delhi and NCR provide from 15 to 30 points out of 100 to children of alumni of the school and several parents and experts believe that this leads to “indirect screening” of children.

With 25 per cent seats reserved for those from economically weaker sections and disadvantaged groups, under the Right to Education Act, 2009, schools have been allowed to formulate their own categories for admission in general category and decide the number of points to be allocated to each category, according to their requirements.

“Parents believe that the alumni criterion allows for schools to screen students. Such students usually have well-to-do backgrounds,” Sumit Vohra from admissionsnursery.com said.

The survey also suggests that the number of points for the alumni category should be lesser thant hat for other criteria such as the first child and girl child.

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Permalink Reply by Saswati Raychaudhuri on December 3, 2012 at 5:24pm

there should be either no alumni points or a maximum of 5 points, because not only are there transfer cases but also many professionals who may not be born and brought in Delhi but made the city their home. On the other hand we may even think of raising the point for girl child to at least 10 points, in a city where in every census we are seeing a declining sex-ratio, indiscriminate female foeticide and a general disregard for girl child. Distance should have at least 40-50 points (it's tiring for a 3-4 yr old to travel long distances in this ever increasing traffic even in a school bus) and lastly some points for the educational qualification/profession of the parents like post grad and higher 15, grad 10, sr sec 08, class x 06 etc