British Council award for 6 city schools

Six schools in the city have received the British Council International School Award (ISA) for the year 2015-16. The awarded schools are Vivek Vidyalaya, Goregaon, Utpal Shanghvi School, Juhu, Bombay Cambridge, Andheri West and East, Surajba Vidyamandir, Jogeshwari and St Joseph's High School, Panvel.

The ISA supports schools in embedding international learning into the curriculum by providing global bench marking standards and accrediting schools that achieve them. ISA was was introduced in India in 2004. “Schools are judged extensively on the work they do beyond curriculum. We had submitted seven projects and leveraged our links with schools abroad to showcase the exchange of ideas in learning,“ said Suresh Nair, principal, Vivek Vidyalaya.

Over 500 schools in the country have received the award this year.The awards were handed out to the school heads at a ceremony in Delhi on July 8.

Source | Times of India | 15 July 2015