Fake ICSE to CBHE — over 100 unrecognised school boards are taking Indian students for a ride
India/May 23, 2022/By: KRITIKA SHARMA and SONIYA AGRAWAL/Source: https://theprint.in/
You may have heard of the Indian Certificate of Secondary Education or ICSE but have you heard of the Indian Council of Secondary Education, also ICSE? What about the All-India Council for Open Education? Or the Central Board of Higher Education (CBHE)? Or Board of Higher Secondary Education? Or Indira Gandhi Higher Secondary and Open Education?
These very academic- and official-sounding “education boards” are among more than 100 “unrecognised” schools boards that the authorities are struggling to crack down on to protect gullible students.
A list of 116 “unrecognised” boards — many of which have names similar to their bona fide counterparts — has now been put up on the website of the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), which has said that it will not admit students who’ve received their schooling under one of them.
Most of the 116 boards appear to be based in Delhi and Uttar Pradesh.
The central government, meanwhile, is working on developing an SOP to give equivalence to various boards, which in turn will help institutes identify real boards from fake ones. The task to ascertain the ‘authenticity’ of boards has been assigned to the Association of Indian Universities (AIU).
ThePrint conducted an independent investigation to find out what these unrecognised boards are and how they operate.
A detailed email was sent to Education Secretary Anita Karwal, seeking her response on what the government has done so far to crack down on these fake boards. This article will be updated once a response is received.
This is either by an Act of Parliament or state legislature, or by an executive order of the central or state government, the notice said.
It further specified that “there are two national-level school boards viz. Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) and National Institute of Open School (NIOS) under the Department of School Education & Literacy, Ministry of Human Resource Development”. The notice further advised parents to “confirm authenticity” with the HRD Ministry of “any board claiming recognition letter having been issued” by it.
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