Outstanding Indian students win 177prestigious Cambridge International awards this year
Pune (P&V News Service) :- Cambridge International has announced the winners of its prestigious Outstanding Cambridge Learner Awards for 2020-21. This year,150 Indian students have scooped 177 of the highly sought-after Outstanding Cambridge Learner Awards for 2020-21 as compared to 127 students last year.
Outstanding Cambridge Learner Awards are the hallmark of exceptional student achievement in Cambridge exams around the world.They recognise students’ achievements in a wide range of Cambridge IGCSE and Cambridge International AS & A Level subjects.
The global awards acknowledgestudent success in four categories – ‘Top in the World’, ‘Top in Country’, ‘High Achievement Award’ and ‘Best Across Subjects[1]’. Out of 150 unique winners across the country,57 winners are from Maharashtra. In Maharashtra, 25 students have won ‘Top in Country’, 16 students have won ‘Top inthe World’, 11 students have won ‘High Achievement Award’ and five students have won ‘Best Across Subjects’ awards.
Altogether, 42 students in Indiascooped the highly coveted ‘Top in the World’ award, which is awarded to students who achieve the highest marks in the world in a particular subject. In addition, 65 won the ‘Top in Country’ award and 17 won the ‘Best across Subjects’ award.
Mahesh Shrivastava, Regional Director, South Asia, Cambridge Assessment International Education said, “I would like to congratulate all of our award winners across India for their truly amazing achievements in theirrecent exams. What they have all achieved, during such a challenging year is incredible. The pandemic has continued to disrupt teaching and learning around the world, creating a great deal of uncertainty for students and teachers alike. Yet our students and their teachers have all worked incredibly hard to overcome these challenges andhave maintained their focus on teaching and learning.I applaud all of our winners. These awards recognise their resilience and dedication and each of them should be very proud of what they have achieved. I wish them all the very best for the future.
“On behalf of everyone at Cambridge International, I would also like to thank and congratulate each of the winners’ schools, teachers and families, for everything they have done to support these students throughout their studies and help them to achieve this success today.”
Mr. Narendra Kumar Ojha, Director, Symbiosis International School, Pune said:“Amid the mayhem and melee unleashed during the global pandemic, one of the toughest challenges was pedagogical adjustment. With no end in sight, facilitators had to transform the approaches to course content, strike a balance between synchronous and asynchronous learning time, amend the assessment and feedback tools. Facilitators marshalled existing resources and developed new ones while the students embraced the evolving pedagogical modalities with aplomb. The Outstanding Cambridge Learner Awards reinforce and recognize the importance of being resilient and adapting to ecosystems that are fragile and fraught with uncertainties. I would like to congratulate all the winners. Their achievements are truly commendable, and the Cambridge awards will further fuel their quest to excel.”
The awards provide an opportunity to recognise the hard work, dedication and outstanding achievements of the very best Cambridge students around the world. The achievements of those who won awards this year are especially impressive, as many of them have had to adapt how they learn when schools were closed, and teaching and learning couldn’t take place face-to-face in a classroom.
