Common admission process can help bring about transparency in admissions: Experts

For getting their wards admitted to nursery section, one can see parents making numerous calls to different schools, waiting for the admission form date, standing in the queue to deposit the form and facing the interview. The list doesn't end here. The anxious wait for the result is the most difficult step, followed by making arrangements for the exorbitant fee, if you are lucky to get through some school.

But introduction of Common Admission Process (CAP) will end all these travails of parents, feel city-based education experts. "The amount charged for the admission form ranges from Rs 500 to Rs 2,500, depending upon the school. Parents end up spending Rs 2,000 to Rs 10,000 for buying admission forms as they don't want to take take any chance and most of them apply in at least three to four schools. Most schools interview the parents and the child which is ridiculous," says Jayant Jain, president, Forum for Fairness in Education (FFE).

Jain suggested that there should be one common online admission form for everyone and a software can help suggest schools to opt for on the basis of their geographical location as per their pin code. "Just the way it happens in colleges, parents can specify their preference for few schools in their area."

In 2011, FFE had filed a petition in High Court regarding the need for introduction of rules mandatory to bring about regularity in the admission process in private

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