Educational qualification of parents will no longer be given weightage during admission of a child in nursery schools. The decision was taken at a meeting of School Advisory Board, headed by Delhi Education Minister Arvinder Singh Lovely on Tuesday. Lovely said the government is committed to chalk out child-friendly criteria for nursery admissions as educational qualifications of parents would become immaterial.
"This would provide level-playing field to all the parents including poor, economically weak and less educated parents," he said. The meeting was attended by education secretary, director education, noted educationists, principals of various reputed schools and other members of the Board.
It was unanimously decided that each school would chalk out its own guidelines for nursery admission this year keeping in view local requirements and will submit it to the education directorate for necessary approval, a government official added.The minister suggested that the guidelines should not give weightage to the educational qualification of the parents. For 2007 the guidelines are going to be the same for the poor and the affluent alike. The schools are to submit these guidelines by December 7, an official said.
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