principals from schools across the asiapacific region met to discuss innovations in education pragya kaushika reports from singaporenearly 70 heads of schools from across the asiapacific region came together recently to discuss innovations in education hosted by the global indian foundation gif the twoday conference marked the fifth foundation day of the global indian international schools giisashok ganguly chairman central board of secondary education cbse g balasubramanium former director academics cbse and c s dharmadhikari vicepresident gif were among the indian delegates present for the meet during his address ganguly stressed on making cbseaffiliated schools global in their outlook and upgrade their curriculum to international standards he opined in the era of globalisation education cannot function in isolation it is necessary for principals of schools affiliated to cbse to know about policies and practices followed the world overbelinda charles president academy of principals singapore acknowledged that the traditional education system of singapore doesnt strive for holistic development of the child she said stress on academic performance can kill their talent we need to have a flexible system and identify individual strengths and work on them rather than compartmentalising them into two categories good and bad we need to learn from international schools that are motivating students to perform better as per their abilitiessharing her experience in innovative methodology vijayam ravi director education sulochnadevi singhania school presented the book which her school has developed for students from class i to viii she said we have introduced chapters on the indian penal code guide on how to file an fir issues of child right how to report child abuse topics on banking cultural specifications of various countries we have not left even a single subject even the students were consulted while selecting the content of the book further principals from thailand middle east japan malaysia new zealand and india also shared their experience in school education