(MENAFN- The Peninsula) India's Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) educational system is making quiet inroads into Vietnam, thanks to the efforts of the Indian diaspora.
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, has introduced the CBSE teaching method in three subjects - Math, Science and English - in junior classes across 25 schools in major cities in Vietnam.
Kalia, who launched his Ismart Education Foundation three years ago, said the CBSE teaching method has caught on, winning more schools every year.
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. He has now approached India's Human Resource Development ministry to ask if they can formulate a "partial curriculum" based on the three subjects for countries keen to absorb the Indian education system.
The 25 schools are located in capital Hanoi, in Ho Chi Minh, Nha Trang, a coastal city and capital of Khánh Hòa Province, on the south central coast of Vietnam, and other cities, he said.
Kalia's future plan is to take the CBSE system till grade 12 in Vietnam. "I have seen how the CBSE method is popular in Vietnam. We plan to take it across all schools in the country, and soon take it to other countries in the neighbourhood, and even beyond. The CBSE method is as good as the best educational system in the world, so it is good if we can spread it," said Kalia.
Kalia, who is married to a Vietnamese and has two daughters aged 10 and seven, was here as part of the gathering of India diaspora who had come to interact with visiting Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj.
Swaraj arrived here on Sunday on a three-day visit. There are over 2,000 Indians in Vietnam.
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