Latest News 2007

Children and Teachwers outside the school Activities and development at the Maitreya Universal Education School in Bodhgaya continue to progress.

National Exam Results

Our Class 10 students sat for national exams in October and achieved a good result with only two papers failed out of sixty taken and an average mark of around 60%. During the same exam session, some of our former Class 12 students who graduated earlier in 2006 also repeated papers they had failed. These latest results mean that of the sixteen students who sat for Class 12 exams last year, fourteen have now passed all subjects and have now enrolled in degree programs at local colleges.

Organisational Changes

For the last four and a half years Dick Jeffrey, Maitreya Education Director, has also doubled-up as school principal. At the end of December 2006, Ven Kabir Saxena, who has been helping with teacher training for more than four years, accepted the role of School Principal on an acting basis.

It is anticipated that Ven Kabir will continue in the role for the remainder of 2007 and in the meantime we will continue to search for a suitably qualified person for a permanent appointment. While our preference is to appoint an Indian national with Hindi language, we would be pleased to hear from anyone who is interested in the position.

The Journey towards the Good Heart

This was the theme this year for both our annual art and craft exhibition and the school concert, both of which took place in January. The art and craft exhibition included collections of works on a range of themes that included: generosity, kindness, love, patience, rejoicing, respect, tolerance and unity.

Our concert this year was based on a story developed by our drama teachers and the action was interwoven with the usual range of classical and folk dances for which our children have now become well known in Bodhgaya. As usual, the concert ended with a ‘quawalli’, or Muslim prayer song, which always pleases the audience.

New Kindergarten Class

It is always exciting to take in a new group of five-year-olds for our kindergarten class. As usual we had a difficult task selecting the twenty-five children from the many hundreds who applied.