School Ratings Project

Under our transparency effort, we hope to develop a rating system to help school managers, parents, regulators and investors better assess the quality of education these schools are offering. GMC has engaged Micro-Credit Rating International Limited (M-Cril, www.m-cril.com), pioneers of the microfinance rating industry.

The rating will consist of key indicators of quality education ranging from input data such as infrastructure, facilities, teachers, to outcome data such as student performance. The rating system will be simple enough to be applied to any school but effective in terms of accurately representing the school's offering. GMC will collaborate with an education partner to identify the best indicators to be used in a rating.

Once established, it is hoped that the rating system would become an industry standard so that all APSs would seek a rating, continually strive to earn a top rating, and freely share their data for benchmarking purposes. Under a new accreditation system such as this, stakeholders, especially parents, would have a better understanding of each school and the services they provide to drive student achievement.