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Another body representing city’s private schools on Thursday came out with criteria and schedule for nursery admissions, adding to the confusion of parents.
A week after the National Progressive Schools Conference (NPSC) issued broad guidelines to the 80-odd schools under its ambit along with an admission schedule, the Action Committee for Unaided Private Schools, the umbrella organisation of private schools in the city, released parameters for schools.
Parents are confused, with the Directorate of Education (DoE) too deciding to come out with a schedule shortly.
“The department will be coming out with a schedule shortly,” Padmini Singla, director, DoE, said.
The admission guidelines released on Thursday are an exact copy of the guidelines released by NPSC. It asks schools to reserve 25 per cent seats for EWS category, 20 per cent for siblings, up to 5 per cent for alumni, up to 5 per cent for staff, up to 25 per cent for general category and 20 per cent for management quota.
“The criteria decided by the school shall be duly approved by the school managing committee. After this, it is to be put up on the school website and a copy sent to the DoE before admission process commences,” the guidelines state.
NPSC’s guidelines say distribution and submission of forms will be done between December 20 and January 20, draw of lots for EWS seats held between January 25 and February 5 and the whole process wrapped up by March 31.
The action committee for private schools has kept the same window for admissions — December 20 to January 20 — for issue and submission of forms, and wrapping up the admission process by March 31.
Schools said they will wait for the department’s schedule and make changes to the existing schedule, if needed. “We came out with our own schedule because the directorate was silent on the matter. But if the directorate is going to come out with a timleline, we will amend our dates accordingly,” S K Bhattacharya, president of the Action Committee for Unaided Private Schools said.
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TOI -Another private school body issues nursery guidelines
The Action Committee guidelines use the same seat allotment as NPSC—25% to EWS, 20% management, 5% for staff wards and the rest are open seats. For admission into the last category, the committee suggests that schools have as criteria distance (or neighbourhood), sibling, alumni and "school-specific criteria" such as "girl child, minority, single parent, etc".
While the last set seems optional, in reality, all of them are. No guideline decided by any school association is "legally binding". But as Action Committee's S K Bhattacharya earlier explained to TOI, it is in the interest of private schools to accept this basic attempt at self-regulation.
However, as the guideline says, "schools are further advised to limit the percentage of seats in each category to enable a significant number of seats [to be] made available in the general category." It then gives an "example" of the sort of seat distribution scheme schools can adopt: EWS (25%), sibling ("upto 20%"), alumni ("upto 5%"), staff ("upto 5%"), management quota ("upto 20%"), general category (25%). The last bit has sparked panic among parents.
"Parents aren't happy about the capping of the number of seats to siblings. The 25% seats to general category are worrisome, too. This means that only in new schools where there are no alumni cases will there be more than 25% seats in general category," explains Sumit Vohra of admissionsnursery.com.
"The Action Committee and NPSC guidelines are practically the same. In my school, there are no alumni applicants, so those seats will go to general category," says Jyoti Arora, principal, Mount Abu Public School.
Thursday's guidelines—the third to be proposed in a week—also considers the case of disabled children like NPSC. In the allotment of seats section, it says, "25% EWS including 3% for children with special needs / disadvantaged group (depending on facilities available)." Anshumaan Sahni who'd argued the case for parents who'd gone to court demanding a quota for special needs children says that the court hasn't specified a quota at all but "we need schools to clarify if they are proposing a 3% quota within the 25% EWS-Disadvantaged Group quota as that can be challenged".
Another school body comes out with its set of nursery rules
NEW DELHI: An umbrella body of school associations with about 350 affiliated institutions came out with nursery admission guidelines on Thursday.
Apart from the 20% management quota that made a comeback this year, after the Delhi High Court told the government that it had to give a free hand to schools to decide admission guidelines, the body — Action Committee Unaided Recognised Private School — assigned 5% seats for candidates of their employees.
Deciding the weightage of the neighbourhood, distance and sibling categories, which were among the most prominent till last year, have been left to the discretion of individual schools.
The association suggested a limit of up to 20 per cent points for siblings and 5 for alumni so that the general category students would have 25 per cent weightage.
It asked the schools to introduce their own specific criteria like single parent, girl child and minority.
Parents are, however, not happy with the 20 per cent cap on siblings, but welcomed the 5 per cent limit on alumni.
“Truely, siblings category is above all. We don’t want to send our children to two different schools,” said advocate Gurpreet Salwaha.
The association has suggested that the sale of admission forms may begin by December 20 and continue up to January 20.
As per the Supreme Court’s orders, 25% seats will be allotted to the students from the economically weaker sections.
Last week, the National Pro g ressive Schools’ Conference (NPSC) — a consortium of 100 private schools — issued guidelines for its affiliated schools. As per NPSC guidelines, allotment of seats has been left to the respective schools, with a cap on management and staff quota at 20 per cent and 5 per cent respectively.
Body of over 300 schools retains management quota, introduces staff section; leaves sibling, neighbourhood to schools
The Hindu - Criteria for nursery admissions must be objective, parent-friendly: panel
School Action Committee suggests parent-
A day after the Delhi High Court refused to stay a single Bench order on nursery admission guidelines, the School Action Committee for private unaided schools has suggested that the admission criteria should be ‘parent-friendly’ and ‘objective’.
The action committee has suggested that schools should not have interview of parents and children before admissions.
“After allotting 25 per cent seats to economically weaker sections, five per cent for the staff and twenty per cent for the management quota, the rest of the seats should be given on clear and well-defined criteria. The distance/neighbourhood, sibling, alumni and school specific criteria should be given importance while admitting a child,” the committee suggested.
The committee added that the school specific criteria, decided by schools individually, should be duly approved by the school’s Managing Committee. The criteria should also be put up on the school website and a copy sent to the Directorate of Education before the admission process commences.
It further suggested that admission dates should be between December 20 and January 20 and the issuance and acceptance of forms should be at least for ten days. It suggested that the admission process be completed in all respects by March 31, 2015.
Most of the parents are, however, confused on the schedule and admission criteria. “Now we will have to fill every school’s individual criteria and documentation,” said Gurpreet Walia, a parent.
Sumit Vohra, who runs a website on Nursery admissions, said: “The School Action Committee has suggested criteria with capping. This means that in old established schools, the general category will get only about 25 per cent of the seats as 20 per cent seats would exhaust in sibling quota while 5 per cent under alumni. But new schools will not have 20 per cent sibling and 5 per cent alumni cases, so those seats will go to general category.”
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Permalink Reply by Babita Rawat on
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It looks this year the mess is bigger than last year.
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Permalink Reply by Sakshi (Moderator) on
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Yes , Babita i concur.
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Permalink Reply by Arvinder chawla on
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No doubt...
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Permalink Reply by Lathaa Manavalan on
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It's totally unfair to get approval of criteria from school management committee since their role are responsibilities are different as per RTE Act. First a cross check has to done if a school management committee is functioning in a legal manner. So it's better to get approval from DOE.
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