GUWAHATI: Experts and officials from leading education boards of India and abroad will assemble in the State’s capital city here on Thursday to participate in a three-day-long brainstorming session to jointly formulate a strategy to maintain integrity in conduct of examinations.
Representatives of nearly 60 education boards, including the CBSE and ICSE, will discuss in details ways to prevent examinations goof-ups and maintain sanctity of the boards exams during the 47th annual conference of the Council of Boards of School Education in India (COBSE) scheduled to be held at Assam Administrative Staff College, Khanapara from November 15 to 17. Representatives of the education boards from UK, Singapore, Bangladesh, Nepal and Bhutan will also attend the conference.
The COBSE provides a common platform for mutual consultation to reinforce the quality of school education. It provides support to its member boards across the country to bring about changes in various fields, including examination reforms.
“It is a great privilege that Assam for the first time is hoisting the annual conference of the prestigious COBSE. Various issues relating to sanctity and integrity in holding boards exams will be discussed thoroughly. Examination systems across the world have faced serious scrutiny over the last few years. The three-day conference will aim at finding means to reinstate the integrity of the system,” Kamal Jyoti Gogoi, secretary of Assam Higher Secondary Education Council (AHSEC), said.
Gogoi told reporters here on Monday that various problems and challenges faced by the State boards such as AHSEC and Board of Secondary Education, Assam (SEBA) in conducting exams in a free-and-fair manner will also be discussed at the conference. Besides various stakeholders associated with conducting of boards exams, vice ancellors of all universities in the State will also attend the conference.
Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal will inaugurate the conference on Thursday. Director General of Police, Assam Kuladhar Saikia will deliver the keynote address.
Gogoi said the AHSEC and SEBA will offer various suggestions, including working out a uniform evaluation methodology in Class X and XII final so that students do not suffer due to different systems adopted by boards to allot marks.
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