Mission Schools of Excellence

Mission Schools of Excellence

the department commenced training of all stakeholders Block Resource Centre co-ordinators, Cluster Resource Centre co-ordinators, District Education Officers, District Institute of Education and Training principals among others on June 28 at Gujarat Council of Educational Research and Training headquarters in Gandhinagar. It will continue till July 8.

“Along with a better understanding of the project, from the training we are looking at a participative planning from all these stakeholders involved,” said secretary education Vinod Rao.



Further, as a part of training, project details include how to make Gujarat ready for Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) by 2024 — an evaluation of education system by measuring scholastic performance of 15-year-old students by Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.

The consultative-cum-participative-training-cum-workshop divided into batches is looking at identifying and selecting 500 schools that can be converted into Schools of Excellence in the first phase. So, the 250 BRCs are being trained to task with selecting two schools each from their block with a condition both schools from different clusters. So, in the next batches education inspectors will be involved who are tasked with school accreditation process in the coming months Rao added.

The ambitious project has chalked out 25,000 new classrooms to be built in this period of six years — 4,000 classrooms per year, setting up 1.5 lakh smart classrooms in primary and secondary schools along with 25,000 computer labs and 5,000 Atal Tinkering Lab


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