From Economic Times
HANOI: India’s Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) educational system is making quiet inroads into Vietnam, thanks to the efforts of the Indian diaspora.
Vietnamese children at Na Tri primary school, Xin Man district, Ha Giang province. There are more than 780,000 H’mong in Vietnam, with 40% of households living under the poverty line and 50% lacking access to clean water during the dry season.. (Photo by Chau Doan/LightRocket via Getty Images)
The all-India education system is being popularised in a small way in this Southeast Asian nation by Navneet Kalia, founder and chairperson of Ismart Education. Kalia, who has been living in Vietnam for the past 15 years. He has introduced the CBSE teaching method in three subjects – Math, Science and English – in junior classes across 25 schools in major cities in Vietnam.
“The CBSE method helps fulfil the needs of the Vietnamese students in English, Math and Science. We are focussing only on the grades one, two and three at present, and plan to extend it to senior schools,” Kalia told visiting IANS correspondent.
According to Kalia, who launched his Ismart Education Foundation three years ago, the CBSE teaching method has caught on, winning more schools every year.
“Around 1,500 Vietnamese students in grades 1, 2 and 3, in the 25 schools are being taught the three subjects,” Kalia said.
In India, CBSE has 12 million students under it across 12,504 schools, including 1,002 Kendriya Vidyalayas, 1,944 government schools, 8,966 independent schools, 562 Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas.
Ismart holds special training sessions for Vietnamese teachers on the CBSE method of teaching English, Math and Science, said Kalia.
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