Nursery admissions: Troubles plague edu dept’s web portal
NEW DELHI: Troubles with the Directorate of Education’s web portal, where the admission criteria for various schools is supposed to be uploaded, continued on Wednesday — a week after admission procedure started.
As of Wednesday, the site had listed schools which did not offer pre-primary or primary classes, and flagged them for not uploading nursery admission criteria.
Out of the 1,695 private recognised schools in Delhi, only 1,496 schools had uploaded their criteria by 8pm on Wednesday. This despite the Directorate of Education saying that if schools failed to upload their admission criteria by Tuesday, their admission process would be kept in abeyance.
The 199 schools which had not uploaded their criteria till Wednesday, included institutions like Modern School on Barakhamba Road and The Army Public School in Delhi Cantonment, which do not offer nursery classes. Modern has classes beginning from sixth grade, while the Army Public school has classes from first garde, according to their websites.
Though Atishi Marlena, the advisor to education minister Manish Sisodia, said that she would have to check why Modern School had made it to their list, she clarified that the criteria was for all entry level classes — nursery, kindergarten and Class 1.
As reported by Hindustan Times earlier, the Doe’s admission criteria page, which is supposed to be a one stop place for parents to see different point systems for various schools, seems to have two sets of data. While the zone wise listing of admission criteria seems to reflect the correct categories and points for different schools, the one which enlists all the schools, regardless of their district, seems to have a different point systems.
Schools like Sanskriti had no points allotted to any criteria on the consolidated page, while other schools like Delhi Public School Mathura Road and Springdales School had last year’s criteria on the page.
Though Marlena had said that the issue was a technical glitch that would be rectified soon, this is yet to be fixed.