Tata Quality Management Services organised ‘EQUIP 2013’ at little Flower School, Telco, to recognise the improvement efforts of Jamshedpur schools in various areas of school functioning.
A total 13 projects, out of a total of 48 entries from 22 schools, were shortlisted for presentation before a Jury comprising Dipankar Sengupta (former employee of Tata Steel), Bailey Bodhanwala , and Prof Sharad Sarin, senior faculty, XlRI. A M Misra, vice president, shared services, Tata Steel was also present at the function.
EQUIP (Education Quality Improvement Projects) was initiated in 2010 to help schools identify and work on improvement areas.
More than 50% of the participating schools have been reporting EQUIP since then. Improvement projects are reported under three types - Innovation, Problem Solving and Executing Task.
Till date, a cumulative total of over 188 improvement projects have been submitted under the initiative.
The jury selected eight projects (as mentioned below) for recognition at the TEEP Annual Award Function 2013 - ‘Climbing the Concept ladder in Mathematics’ by Kerala Public School, Burmamines, ‘To increase Class average performance from 15% in second term to 30 per cent in final’ by Kerala Public School, Kadma, ‘Improve Confidence in conducting school programmes in English amongst students’ from RMS High School, Khutadih ‘Improvement of Class average of Std. XII Science’ by Tata DAV Public School, Noamundi, ‘look What I can do’ by
Baug-E-Jamsheed School, ‘Assembly Programme for all-round development’ by Gulmohur High School, ‘Value education- learning Braille to identify with the visually impaired’ by Hill Top School and ‘Ethos- it’s time to be ethical’ by Kerala Samajam Model School.