400+ seats vacant but locked due to indecisive Delhi Govt!?

HT Delhi : Around 400 nursery seats will remain vacant this year as the Delhi government has decided NOT to hold a second round of lottery for admission in the economically weaker section/disadvantaged (EWS/DG) category for private schools.

In a circular issued by the Directorate of Education (DOE), the government said that 384 seats have remained vacant as there were no applications in these school or the applicants were allotted a school of higher preference.

This year, the DOE had received 1,13,991 online applications for the 31,653 EWS/DG category seats. Through the computerized draw of lots, a total of 31,269 candidates were allotted schools as per their preferences.

In an affidavit filed by the government at the Delhi High Court, the government has stated that out of the 28,135 seats in 1,159 schools more than 19,000 seats have been filled.

(source: http://www.hindustantimes.com/delhi/nursery-admissions-400-ews-seats-vacant-in-private-schools-but-no-second-draw-of-lots/story-VU1MfPmQ3CL3952AVGwNeP.html)

VIRAL & BREAKING: How fake 'crisis' created by nursery admissions forums lead to panic situation in Delhi

We first published this news (via HT), on 3rd March that announced that Delhi parents are reaching out to Gurugram schools for admissions as Nursery Admissions in Delhi continues to haunt poor parents that are once again left clueless, and looking for answers to same age old questions once again.

HERE IS THE INSIDE STORY!

Many parents have started blocking seats in NCR schools as there is lot of misleading information being provided on many leading online forums/sites creating panic situation and these sites are actually promoting some leading schools (so called international schools, full A/C schools, hat-ke schools etc - you know what I mean here), as a result they are creating panic so that they can sell seats in those schools in Gurugram, Noida, Faridabad and specially parents that are ready to shell out money as that puts them in more comfortable position by securing seats but hardly helpful.

It is all about money, a nexus and nursery admissions mafia in making :)

Many online sites and forums are misleading parents by re-publishing information that contradicts with reality on ground, and with parents locked in three way battle among - Schools <> DOE/Govt <> Court - these forums are doing further damage by confusing parents, and diverting them to NCR schools that are always on hunt for upper middle or higher class parents that are always on hunt for comfort zone.

It is pain but parents are advised to rather look for information with schools (the best source actually), as many online forums have incomplete, outdated information. Media hardly validates information themselves and falls pray to these fake admissions gurus assuming they know it all - they are actually in the hands of nexus, who is diverting their attention and actually multiplying panic their benefit.

Now Open - Admission in Govt. Schools Across Delhi - Nursery Admissions 2017-2018

Nursery Admissions 2017-18
for Nursery / KG / 1st in 150 Sarvodaya Vidyalaya Schools

If you already know how to apply online, please click here to go to the online admission form for admissions in Govt Schools for Nursery Admissions 2017-2018

Click here to got to DOE website to find out more and apply:

• Guidelines for Filling Online Form
• List of Schools with Nursery / KG / Ist as Entry Level
• Online Registration form to Apply
• Reprint of Online Filled Registration form
• Deletion of Online Filled Registration form

BREAKING!! Neighbourhood Criteria Scrapped for 298 Delhi Schools on Govt Land

HC judgment was due on 14th Feb is finally out and after a series of ups and downs on selection criteria for Nursery Admissions 2017-2018 session for 298 schools built on govt land in Delhi, finally HC has ruled that neighborhood criteria can not be FORCED onto these schools.

Delhi govt issued a notice that schools built on govt land must follow the special selection criteria, that mandated 75 seats to be filled with kids from neighborhood (i.e making distance as main criteria for selection. HC stayed the order mid of January, adding the chaos, and poor schools had started publishing their selection criteria and points breakup on DOE website, further leading to confusion.

In short -

• Schools are free to setup their own selection criteria from the list of approved ones (that actually covers all that you can think of), but here is the favorite criteria that schools are expected to pick from,  
• While schools will continue to use distance as main criteria, expect the points to be dropped for distance and other standard criteria will get their place and slice
• Schools will probably update the revised criteria and points on DOE site, but given that there is not much time left, so they may be updating it on their website, and at school notice boards. We shall try and update the database as soon as it is made available, here you can refer and search schools and their criteria and points as it stands today.

Good luck parents!

Criteria & Points for 1250+ Schools Updated! - Nursery Admissions 2017-2018

Find Criteria & Points for over 1250 Delhi Schools
(last updated on 25th Jan 2017)

SchoolsWeLike.com has always been looking for innovtive ways to improve parents experience during Nursery Admissions in Delhi

Here we present the simple yet powerful search across all Delhi schools that have published Selection Criteria and Points.

Search Now !

IMPORTANT: Please note that selection criteria and points criteria for over 1250 schools has NOT been published on DOE site yet, but we intend to bring you the latest data as and when it gets published. 

Please share the help fellow parents and share your experience and feedback! 

Thanks!!

Source: All information is provided in good faith for guidance and reference purposes only. It is of a general informational and educational nature, and SchoolsWeLike.com takes no legal responsibility for the accuracy of the information provided via this page or found as a consequence of this service, nor for any loss or damage including that arising from warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose, resulting from any such information. Visitors are requested to refer to DOE/school circulars and website as information may change time to time.

Selection Criteria/Points of 298 Schools on DDA Land!

SchoolsWeLike.com has been bringing the breaking news on all fronts of Nursery Admissions Delhi for 2017-2018 session and team has created tool to let you Search the Selection Criteria and Points for General Category (mostly) for schools that have uploaded the data on DOE site,

 CLICK HERE for Selection criteria and points distribution for 298 schools on DDA land 

So stay connected and watch this space and Connect with us on Facebook & Twitter for latest updates on Nursery Admissions Delhi 2017-2018

Good luck all parents!

Some Private Schools Start The Process, Others Waiting For Government Guidelines : Delhi Nursery Admissions 2017-18

Nursery admission in Delhi schools started on January 2 and the parents are still facing troubles with choosing schools for their children. Plenty of complaints have been reported after Delhi nursery admissions kicked off in the beginning of this week. Most prominent among them is the confusion over 298 schools in the capital city. After Delhi Directorate of Education (DoE) notified that schools on public land of Delhi Development Land (DDA) will have new guidelines for nursery admissions, so far, the only thing happened in that front is the meeting between school authorities and the Directorate of Education.

According to reports, those who have attended the meeting informed the government authorities their concerns regarding having two sets of standards for schools in the capital. 

Though there was no common admission guidelines published after the meetings, some private schools in the capital have already started admission procedure. 

Some schools are waiting for the government guidelines to come regarding the criteria and they have informed the parents about this, Red Roses Public School is one of them. "Pre-School admission for the session 2017-18 has been stopped till further guidelines from Directorate of Education", Red Roses Public School has said in a notice published in their website. 

Amidst all this confusion, parents are worried. Their major concern is; what will happen if they wait for the new guidelines and its aftermath. For the past few years Nursery admissions in Delhi have seen many controversies, with parents taking schools and the government to court over changing rules and guidelines several times. 

Meanwhile there were reports suggesting that the Delhi government is planning to do away with the management quota in the nursery admissions. If that happens, the schools and parents may again will be dragged into the court procedures as happened last year in which the schools procured a stay on Delhi government's decision to end the management quota in school admissions.

According to the education department's notification, admission forms were available from January 2 and the last date to submit applications is January 23. 

The first list of selected candidates, including those waitlisted, along with marks allotted under the point system, will be announced by schools on February 15. The second list, if any, will come out on February 29 and the admission process will close on March 31.

source: www.ndtv.com/

Schools gearing up to criteria and points, here is the inside story!

Schools gearing up to criteria and points and SWL brings you the "inside story"!

1400+ schools of Delhi are ready with their selection criteria and points, SchoolsWeLike.com brings you the inside story, wondering what the criteria is going to be, and how many points schools are going to assign to each one of them? Know them first and know them now.

I brought you story around DOE/Delhi Gov mistakes earlier in the day, and here our data team did a detailed study and survey and found that most of the schools are going to use these criteria and points for Nursery Admissions for 2017-2018 session:

• Neighborhood - of course this is going to be there, and anyone can guess that. But note that schools are going to break it into slabs in terms of distance and most preferred slabs are going to be -
• 0 km to 3 km (40-50 points)
• 3 km to 5/6 km (20-30 points)
• 6/7 km and above (under 10 points or less)
• Sibling - Most of the schools are going to put this in their list and expect the points to be in the range of 20-30 points (in some cases schools would give extra points in case of two siblings in same school)
• Alumni - Schools love to give advantage to parents that been alumni of same school. A typical 10-20 points to this one.
• Staff - For all different reasons, schools prefer to give extra points to kids of staff members as this works for them as well, and teachers would stay with school if their kids also attend the same school. Nobody wants to lose good teachers. Expect 10 points to this criteria.

Other favorites are -

• First Child/Girl Child/Single Parent - Schools have been giving points to these, and usually this would attract 10 points and this case really handy for many parents of course.
• Transferable job - Schools prefer a fix number of kids that help them rotate the seats as they are promoted to senior classes, this helps them generate more revenue and profits (how? that's a long story for another day :D). Usually this attracts 10 points. Further if you are wondering if your job is considered a transferable job or not? Drop a message in comments with details of what sort of job you are in and I shall revert.

Good luck parents!

Tagore International School, East of Kailash - Nursery Admissions 2017-18

Tagore International School, East of Kailash - Nursery Admissions 2017-18, Admission Notice, No of seats and admission criteria

The Mother's International School - Admission Notice for Academic Session 2017-18

The Mother's International School - Admission Notice for Academic Session 2017-18 with list of locality and points

3 mistakes that DOE/Delhi Govt could have avoided - and they did it again!? Check out...

It is not rocket science and even if it would have been that complex, don't they have required resources, or support, or authority to get it done?

Parents are clueless and left to wonder, grin, and helpless once again! Nothing new in year 2017, yet again, and history repeats as schools continue to play by their own rules, and parents shall expect that those 1400 odd schools that free to choose their own criteria have no motivation or support or govt. control to relax it from what they did last year.

Here are the top 3 gross and silly mistakes that could have been avoided and it is not rocket science -

Mistake #1) DOE should have asked schools (all schools that need to publish points) to list and publish selection criteria and points by 15th December, so that parents get enough lead time (15 days) to shortlist schools they would like to apply (basis total points they are scoring).

Reality check: 
1) Guidelines for admissions to Govt schools and 298 schools on DDA land are not published as yet, admission starts tomorrow.
2) Parents would now have wait and/or to go to all schools and check the guidelines, criteria and other details starting tomorrow and that's not an easy task.

Mistake #2) DOE/Govt should have defined a fixed list of criteria that schools can choose from (say 5-8 criteria), e.g. Neighborhood (with clear and predefined distance slabs),  Sibling, Alumni, Girl Child, and so on. 

Reality check:
1) Although DOE has asked schools not to use ones from 62 list, but....schools are free to use some of them as long as they "try" to ensure it is defined well and is not biased. You know what I mean....
2) Parents struggled over years to sync up same criteria being used by different schools differently e.g. Distance slabs would vary from school to school), Alumni - mother and father and both would be rated by schools differently and there are many more...

Mistake #3) Despite of all resources available, the DOE site doesnt work properly, the information published is scattered all over the place, you really need surgical eyes and hands to find the links and information.

Reality check:
1) No summary of notices, information available, its all published in long PDFs and report formats that's hard to understand and an 'aam aadmi'. Many parents would have appreciated if the information is also available in Hindi
2)  No reliable search feature on site, no heads up on how and where the information will be published on DOE site, its all "treasure hunt" games for parents.

(Updated on 2nd Jan 2017: SchoolsWeLike.com has come up with Search Engine on data provided by DOE to make it easy for parents to search the school criteria and points for Nursery Admissions 2017-2018)

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The list is long, all I wanted to reflect here is this is all easy to implement - we are in 2017 (oh! Happy Near Year friends! :D)

The problem can be fixed this within short span of timehrs, as techie I know it is easy as long as you got data in right form and shape which I hope they have and if not, please add that as Mistake#4 :)

Wish you all a fresh beginning here and may your ward gets admission to the school you desire him/her to go to. 

Salwan Schools, Nursery Admissions 2017-18

Salwan Schools, Nursery Admissions 2017-18

(as seen in HT today)

Ramjas Schools, Nursery Admissions 2017-18

Ramjas Schools across Delhi, Nursery Admissions 2017-18

Ramjas School, Anand Parbat

Ramjas School, RK Puram

Ramjas Public School, Anand Parbat

Ramjas Nursery Primary School, Daryaganj & Ballimaran

(as seen in HT today)

Queens Valley Junior School - Nursery Admissions 2017-18

Queens Valley Junior School, Dwarka - Nursery Admissions 2017-18

(as seen in HT today)

New Era Public School, Dwarka - Nursery Admissions 2017-18

New Era Public School, Dwarka, New Delhi - Nursery Admissions 2017-18

(as seen in HT 

My Pride Sachdeva Jr School, Pitampura - Nursery Admissions 2017-18

My Pride Sachdeva Jr School, Pitampura, New Delhi - Nursery Admissions 2017-18

(as seen in HT today)

The Elisabeth Gauba School, Kali Bari - Nursery Admissions 2017-18

The Elisabeth Gauba School, Kali Bari, New Delhi - Nursery Admissions 2017-18

(formerly known as Shiv Niketan School)

(as seen in HT today)

Better Future Sachdeva Jr School, Rohini - Nursery Admissions 2017-18

Better Future Sachdeva Jr School, Rohini - Nursery Admissions 2017-18

(as published in HT Today)

DPS RK Puram/Vasant Vihar/EoK - Nursery Admissions 2017 - Schedule, Point System

DPS RK Puram, New Delhi, has published detailed schedule and points system for Pre-School (Nursery) Admission 2017-2018. This school has Junior Schools at Vasant Vihar & East of Kailash.

IMPORTANT: Only 50% seats have been opened for general category as rest of the seats are blocked for other categories (EWS/DG - 25%, Staff Quota - 5%, Management Quota - 20%). 

It is shocking that this school has blocked as many as 20% seats (79 seats in total) under management quota - which means shop is open winter sale is on :)

Here are the details for the most general queue (not general category as 20% of seats has been put up for management quota) - 

	Parameters / Criteria - General Category	Points
i	Neighbourhood (Localities specified in the map within the aerial radii of 15 km of the school) Area Distance Points A 0 - 1 KM 40 B 1.1 - 3 KM 35 C 3.1 - 6 KM 30 D 6.1 - 8 KM 25 E 8.1 - 15 KM 20	40
ii	Sibling (Real brother / sister studying in DPS R K Puram / Vasant Vihar / East of Kailash)	30
iii	Parent (Father / Mother) Alumni of School (Class X / XII Certificate - DPS R K Puram only)	10 (Father) 10 (Mother)
iv	Girl Child	05
v	Single Parent (Widow/Widower/Legally Divorced OR Single Parent with legally adopted child)	05
	TOTAL	100

For other details please visit school site.

G.D. Goenka Public School, Sarita Vihar - Nursery/KG Admissions for Session 2017-2018

G.D. Goenka Public School, Sarita Vihar, New Delhi has published the notice and details for Nursery Admissions 2017-2018. This school is accepting application for all the grades.

REGISTRATION OPEN FROM JANUARY 2nd 2017, FOR NURSERY, KG & UPWARDS

AGE CRITERIA FOR ADMISSION

PRE-SCHOOL/NURSERY : 3-4 YEARS as on 31.03.2017

PRE-PRIMARY/KG :  4-5 YEARS as on 31.03.2017

GRADE 1 : 5-6 YEARS as on 31.03.2017

ADMISSION SCHEDULE for PRE-SCHOOL (NURSERY) GENERAL CATEGORY

ADMISSION SCHEDULE for PRE-PRIMARY (KG) & UPWARDS

Documents Required at the time of registration :

• Self Attested copy of Birth Certificate
• Self Attested copy of Residence Proof : 
• Ration Card 
• Voter I-Card 
• Electricity bill/MTNL telephone bill 
• Aadhaar card/UID
• One passport size photograph each of the Child and the Parents
• Complete academic transcripts of the previous two classes attended by the student, except for admission to Pre-School (Nursery).