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About The Author. The American Board. Related Posts. Postal Service was developed. Today, at-distance education programs have become more sophisticated and accessible due to the proliferation of the web and digital technology. Elite institutions around the world now offer open courseware, online degrees, and online classes that are both legitimizing and popularizing the idea of education from a computer.
A few significant advancements have shaped and pushed distance learning forward since the late s. The University of Queensland in Australia founded its Department of Correspondence Studies in , which also relied on Australia's postal system. The University of South Africa, today known as one of the world's open distance learning mega colleges, became a champion and innovator of distance learning when it reshaped its mission and focus in Government-approved au pair exchange program allowing young adults worldwide the opportunity to provide intercultural childcare in the homes of American families.
New technologies: The final decade of the 20th century heralds the invention of two important technologies: the personal computer and the internet. While we continue to expand our experiential learning programs, we also launch a new business unit to capitalize on the enormous potential of computer-based learning tools, games and websites.
Adult tours. The program is renamed Go Ahead Tours when it rapidly expands to include educational itineraries to all seven continents, including North America. Academic Year Abroad. EF International Language Centers launches its innovative Academic Year Abroad, a year-long program for young adults that combines linguistic and academic studies. The popularity of this program — particularly to middle-grade students traveling to Washington DC — allows it to become its own organization of company, EF Explore America.
Local language schools. EF establishes English First in Mexico City, our first school of English to cater for students who cannot travel abroad. World-famous designer Paul Rand redesigns the EF logo. Educational software. EF partners with Apple to collaborate on computer-aided language learning initiatives. This educational research unit becomes known as EF Labs. Online language learning. EF Labs launches Englishtown. EF sponsors two boats in the Whitbread Round the World Race, one of them sailed by the first female crew.
New growth: With the advent of social media, instant messaging, and mobile apps in the new millennium, the need to communicate in one common language — English — grows exponentially. So does the need for educational curricula that recognize how interconnected and multicultural the world has grown.
EF rises to the challenge by entering higher education — both at the high school and university level. The main purpose of the conference was to consider the replacement of the overseas Cambridge School Certificate Examination by an All India Examination.
In October at the meeting of the Inter-State Board for Anglo-Indian Education, a proposal was adopted for the setting up of an Indian Council to administer the University of Cambridge, Local Examinations Syndicate's Examination in India and to advise the Syndicate on the best way to adapt its examination to the needs of the country. The inaugural meeting of the Council was held on 3rd November, The Council was listed in the Delhi School Education Act , as a body conducting public examinations.
Now a large number of schools across the country are affiliated to this Council. All these are private schools and generally cater to children from wealthy families. Both the CBSE and the ICSE council conduct their own examinations in schools across the country that are affiliated to them at the end of 10 years of schooling after high school and again at the end of 12 years after higher secondary.
Admission to the 11th class is normally based on the performance in this all-India examination. Since this puts a lot of pressure on the child to perform well, there have been suggestions to remove the examination at the end of 10 years. In addition to the above, there are a relatively small number of schools that follow foreign curricula such as the so-called Senior Cambridge, though this was largely superseded by the ICSE stream elsewhere.
Some of these schools also offer the students the opportunity to sit for the ICSE examinations. These are usually very expensive residential schools where some of the Indians working abroad send their children. They normally have fabulous infrastructure, low student-teacher ratio and very few students.
Many of them have teachers from abroad. There are also other exclusive schools such as the Doon School in Dehradun that take in a small number of students and charge exorbitant fees. Apart from all of these, there are a handful of schools around the country, such as the Rishi Valley school in Andhra Pradesh, that try to break away from the normal education system that promotes rote learning and implement innovative systems such as the Montessori method.
It would be interesting and instructive to do a study on what impact the kind of school has had on the life of their alumni. Each state in the country has its own Department of Education that runs its own school system with its own textbooks and evaluation system.
Each state has three kinds of schools that follow the state curriculum. The government runs its own schools in land and buildings owned by the government and paying the staff from its own resources. These are generally known as government schools. The fees are quite low in such schools. Then there are privately owned schools with their own land and buildings. Here the fees are high and the teachers are paid by the management.
Such schools mostly cater to the urban middle class families. The third kind consists of schools that are provided grant-in-aid by the government, though the school was started by a private agency in their own land and buildings. The grant-in-aid is meant to help reduce the fees and make it possible for poor families to send their children.
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