To upgrade the skills of the teachers at BMC-run schools, the civic corporation will ask its teaching staff to take IQ tests. Depending on the results of the intelligence quotient assessment, officials said, they can go for tailormade training programmes for the teachers. The aim is to improve the level of education at civic schools, said officials. There are about 10,000 teachers in BMC schools.

“BMC has started upgrading teaching patterns in schools. BMC also started various training programmes that are being imparted to teachers,” said a BMC official. “Recently, teachers completed an English course and technology-based teaching.”