Bangalore: With the number of schools affiliated to the University of Cambridge International Examinations (CIE) growing, CIE has chalked out a roadmap for teacher training in India, according to Mark Bartholomew, Regional Manager, South Asia, CIE. Under its fold, CIE has 212 schools, 16 of which are in Bangalore, up from 38 and five schools respectively.

Mr. Bartholomew told presspersons here on Thursday that the structured training modules will be a continuous exercise. CIE will include "small" subjects other than the regular ones (such as physics, chemistry, mathematics, English and so on) in the training programmes.

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It will be launching a website specifically for South Asia wherein the Cambridge schools can communicate. Besides that there will be online training too. The largest training session for teachers will be held in September this year.

Examiners in demand

India has "become by far the most important country" for CIE and it will be bringing in lot more examiners here to meet the demand. CIE is not in the numbers game, he said and mentioned how last year it had disaffiliated eight schools across the country for failing to improve quality of education provided.

CIE has awarded Mallya Aditi International School with international Fellowship Centre status. This is the first one in India (in all 18 centres are there across the globe) and it entails students to avail of scholarship for studies anywhere in the world.

The Fellowship is benchmarking of education systems in place.

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