A CBSE school is set to introduce the Cambridge board in middle school from the next academic session in April.
Lakshmipat Singhania Academy will continue with both boards and gradually shift the international wing to a new campus, the school authorities said.
The school in Alipore will take in students in Classes VI and VII for the Cambridge Assessment International Education( CAIE).
“We have been working on it for the last few years and got the CAIE affiliation a few months back,” said Meena Kak, director, Lakshmipat Singhania Academy.
Kak said many students who want to go abroad were leaving the school because they do not offer an international curriculum.
“Even if it is fewer students in the beginning we will start because we want to give that option to our students or those coming from outside,” said Kak.
Several schools in the city that have recently started international curriculum were facing an exodus of students to an international school in the city or outside.
Teachers dealing with international curriculum said that the number of schools that offer international curriculum was much more in the south or in the western part of the country than in the east or in Kolkata.
Lakshmipat Singhania Academy in the last six months has also conducted meetings with parents of Classes V to VIII to understand the need and demand for an international curriculum.
They are taking the help of a veteran principal who has been one of the pioneers of introducing an international curriculum in a city school.
“As it stands now there is more flexibility (in CAIE) not just in the choice of subjects but also the combination of subjects that a student can take,” said Anuradha Das, director, of Garden High International School who is mentoring Lakshmipat Singhania Academy.
1 arrested in heroin haul
More than 1kg of heroin, which police said was worth over Rs 5.08 crore in the drug market, was seized near Sealdah station on Friday.
Officers of the special task force said that the drugs were seized from an alleged Nadia-based peddler, Prasanta Sarkar, 26.
“A team of the special task force of Kolkata police intercepted a Nadia-based notorious drug peddler near Sealdah Station Road on Friday,” said an officer.
During the search, 1.016kg of “high quality” heroin was seized.
Sarkar, a resident of Shantipur in Nadia, has been arrested and prosecuted under Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances(NDPS) Act, 1985, the police said.
He was produced before the NDPS Court at Bichar Bhavan on Saturday.
The police said they were investigating if he was part of a larger racket. “We are trying to find out who he would supply the narcotic drug to,” said the officer.
Tea stall fire
A fire broke out in a tea stall in Beniapukur on Saturday. Two fire tenders doused it in 20 minutes. No one was injured, police said.