Education in Kolkata

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Kolkata has several parallel systems of education:

• The West Bengal governmental system of education, known as West Bengal Board of Secondary Education and West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education, Kolkata.
• Private Church-run schools administered by either the CNI or Catholic or other non Christian schools administered privately. They are affiliated mostly to the ICSE and ISC examination of the Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations, Delhi.
• Central government administered schools, such as Kendriya Vidyalaya, and privately administered schools affiliated mostly to the Central Board of Secondary Education, Delhi.
• The London Edexcel / the IGCSE education system.
• The Islamic Madrasah system of education.
• The open school based education affiliated to the National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS), Delhi.
• In addition to that, private candidates can appear for examinations of either the CBSE, West Bengal Board and other state boards which conduct their courses in the city.

Non-privileged children mainly attend government primary schools, if they attend school at all. The quality of education available in these schools is not, by world standards, good. There have been recent initiatives, such as Shikhshalaya Prakalpa, to bring more children into the school system and improve the quality of teaching.

Contents 1 Universities 2 List of Schools 3 Medical Colleges 4 Institutions of National Importance 5 See Also

[edit] Universities

Kolkata has nine public universities, numerous degree colleges, five medical colleges, one dental college, several engineering, management and polytechnic institutes.

A number of Indian and foreign institutions have branches in Kolkata. The following universities have their main campus in Kolkata:

• University of Calcutta,
• Jadavpur University,
• Rabindra Bharati University,
• West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences,
• Netaji Subhas Open University,
• Bengal Engineering & Science University (formerly Bengal Engineering College),
• West Bengal University of Health Sciences,
• West Bengal University of Animal and Fishery Sciences,
• West Bengal University of Technology

[edit] List of Schools

Hare School Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan St. Xavier's Collegiate School St James' School Loreto School, Kolkata

La Martiniere College Calcutta Boys' School South Point High School Hindu School Don Bosco School

[edit] Medical Colleges

Calcutta Medical College N.R.S. Medical College R.G.Kar Medical College

National Medical College S.S.K.M. Medical College R.Ahmed Dental College

[edit] Institutions of National Importance

Asiatic Society([1]) Bose Institute ([2]) Indian Statistical Institute([3]) Indian Institute of Management Marine Engineering and Research Institute Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science

Indian Institute of Chemical Biology[4] Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre ([5]) Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics ([6]) S.N Bose National Center for Basic Sciences([7]) Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute

[edit] See Also

• Kolkata