Kolkata: The Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE) has instructed 170 schools in West Bengal to encourage students in Class X and XII to take internships and relate classroom learning to real-life experience.
The internship could be even at a neighbourhood bookstore or in a large company.
Internships in Class X and XII could help connect academic knowledge to real-world situations. This could give practical insights into operations like stock or cash management.
The internship policy would set working hours without burdening students.
In the future, internal assessments across subjects will link to student-generated evidence and project work. This will deepen knowledge and experience.
CISCE is gradually shifting to competency-based education, prioritising conceptual understanding, higher-order thinking, real-world relevance, critical reasoning and inference.
The Council is also planning to introduce a specialised curriculum and examination framework for students devoted to sports, the arts or other intensive extracurricular pursuits.
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