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Each module, or "mod" (as it known colloquially), is either a 20 or 40-minute period used for classes or independent study time. This allows freedom in scheduling as classes can be 40, 60, or 80 minutes long, as needed for one-to one, small group, large group, and laboratory instruction.
BASIS Curriculum Schools seek to prepare students, in the elementary through high school level, to be competitive globally. This is done through extended homework hours, lecture-driven classes, an emphasis on success in standardized tests , like Advanced Placement tests, and an opportunity to graduate early or complete a senior project .
The school was formed on 1 April 2004 as the Defence College of Communications and Information Systems to deliver coherent and cost-effective training across defence. In 2012, it joined three other technical training colleges under a combined organisation, the Defence College of Technical Training, and reverted in title to being a Defence School.
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The school was established by the Sainik Schools Society and founded by then-Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir Sheikh Abdullah in 1980.[3] The school started on September 14, 1981.[4] The first principal was Wing Commander J. K. Gandhi. The school comes under the control of Government of Jammu and Kashmir, supported by the Ministry of Defence.
While run as a sixth form college, the school was an institution of the Ministry of Defence (MoD), and part of the Defence Academy of the United Kingdom. Founded in 1953, the school was originally based at Welbeck Abbey near Worksop , where it provided A-level education for boys planning to join the technical branches of the British Army .
The Defence Academy has its headquarters at what used to be the Royal Military College of Science site at Shrivenham in southwestern Oxfordshire, though the present campus also extends into the neighbouring village of Watchfield; it delivers education and training there and in a number of other sites.
The School Army Aeronautical Engineering (SAAE) is also based at MOD Lyneham, however is under the command of the Defence School of Aeronautical Engineering, the Headquarters of which is based in RAF Cosford. It provides initial and subsequent trade training to avionics & aircraft technicians, and to artificers avionics and artificers aircraft.