Do some institutions attain 100% by keeping out 'weak' students from their portals? The real challenge would be to include those who are considered potential 'drop outs' and create options for them (in whatever field).
Avelino was in school -- actually, in the same class -- with me. He knows that in 1978, our school, Britto's, also attained 100% results at the SSC. But that was obtained by slaughtering all but 25 pupils the previous year. I respect the work of institutions like Don Bosco's night school (Panjim) and crafts complex (Sulcorna), the Rudolf Schwartz initiatives at Siolim and Pernem, and the like... which are mean to create some options and jobs for those whom mainstream education sees as "weak" students. --FN PS: A mother of growing children was telling me, the other day, how many options are available for education in India nowadays, but how costly it's becoming. Today's Gomantak Times/Weekender has an article on how to get funds to finance one's studies. Loans to study further was not a done thing in the past here. Does anyone have an experience with how these work? I think the Manohar Parrikar crafted scheme for offering 'Goa scholarships' to bright young students might just be a way of giving the already well-endowed kids access to taxpayer's money they could well do without. (Like the cyberage scheme, now continued by Digubab and the Congress, which indiscriminately gives computers to poor, middleclass and rich kids ... even if one sibling already has a comp in the family under the same scheme already!) 2008/5/11 D'Souza, Avelino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hundred percent results > 11 May 2008, 0255 hrs IST,Anabelle Colaco,TNN > > PANAJI: Uday Bhalikar can't stop smiling. A few minutes after the Higher > Secondary School Certificate (HSSC) results were announced on Saturday > afternoon, the principal of Damodar Higher Secondary School of Science > in Margao got to know that his college had once again scored cent > percent results. > > Up north, Fr. Paul D'Souza is similarly pleased as punch. Don Bosco > Higher Secondary School of Science, Arts and Commerce, Panaji bagged a > full score in commerce and over 90 percent in science and arts. D'Souza, > the institute's head, says it was expected... > Frederick FN Noronha * Independent Journalist http://fn.goa-india.org * Phone +91-832-2409490 Cell +91-9970157402 (sometimes out of range) Please see http://nursing.goa-india.org