The Heritage School, Adamas International School and Calcutta International School have expressed the desire to have their teachers take the Cambridge International Diploma for Teachers & Trainers, a generic one-year online course that costs about Rs 10,000 per student.
“We will be happy to work with schools like these,” said MS Vinayak, customer services manager of the University of Cambridge International Examinations (CIE), India.” We have had a talk with the managements of these schools but nothing has been finalised as yet. It will take some time,” Vinayak said at a seminar on enhancing maths education that was organised by the CIE and held at The Heritage School.
The CIE is a non-teaching department of the university. It specialises in school examinations like the IGCSE (International General Certificate of Secondary Education) and the A-Level (which are equivalent to the 10&12 board examinations, respectively).
“In India, there are about 200 schools affiliated to the CIE,” he said. “In West Bengal, schools such as Cambridge School, The Himali School, Campion School (Siliguri), Takste School (Sikkim), Pailan and Bridge International are affiliated to us.”
Thirty-eight city schools and 67 teachers attended the seminar.
CIE courses are run in 150 countries and there are around 1.5 million subject entries for exams each year.